forsythialan

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noun

Any of a class of lignans found in plants of the genus Forsythia.

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Meanings

nounforsythialan (plural forsythialans)

plural forsythialans

  1. Any of a class of lignans found in plants of the genus Forsythia.

    A study using a 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging experiment found that the CH 2 Cl 2 fraction of F. suspensa exerted the strongest scavenging activity and suggested that forsythialan A and phillygenin F are the major antioxidant constituents [ 51, 52 ].

    2015 July 2, Yi-ping Guo, Li-gen Lin, Yi-tao Wang, “Chemistry and pharmacology of the herb pair Flos Lonicerae japonicae-Forsythiae fructus”, in Chinese Medicine, volume 10, →DOI
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