Novel medical function of cucurbitacin
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Current Assignee / Owner
- SHENYANG PHARMA UNIVERSITY
- Publication Date
- 2007-10-31
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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Technical field:
[0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of medicine and relates to a new application of known substances cucurbitacins. Specifically, it refers to the new application of cucurbitacin and its pharmaceutical composition in treating laryngeal cancer and improving the white blood cell count of radiation therapy patients. Background technique:
[0002] Cucurbitacins belong to a class of tetracyclic triterpenoids with a 19-methyl group appearing at the C-9 position. They are mainly distributed in Cucurbitaceae plants. It is also found in higher plants such as wood family and some large fungi. Qiu Minghua, a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, led scientific and technical personnel to study 229 almost all cucurbitacin compounds on the basis of the discovery of a series of new types of cucurbitacin compounds, and proposed a new structural classification model, which was reconstructed from the previous five structu...