Organic Chemical
quassins
Subclass of:
Triterpenes
Definitions related to quassins:
  • A group of degraded TRITERPENES which have lost ten carbons (8 from the side chain, C17, and one from C4) so have C20 skeletons which could be misinterpreted as DITERPENES. They especially occur in plants of the SIMAROUBACEAE family.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (quassinoid agent) A group of phytochemicals isolated from several species of the plant family Simaroubaceae with potential antineoplastic activity. Quassinoid agents also exhibit antimalarial, antiprotozoal and antiproliferative activities. (NCI04)
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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