Laurencia Contreras Lema (1907-1997)

JZ Young 1907 –  1997

JZ Young died on 4th July. Although 90 in March, and recently in poor health, he was still working. With long-time collaborators, he was preparing two books and two papers for publication. Three of these are on cephalopod brains and biology, the fourth on the autonomic nervous system of dogfish, an early interest to which he returned after his retirement in 1974. John Young (known as JZ to coll...

Lindsay m. Black, 1907 to 1997.

Sesquiterpenes from Laurencia similis.

One new sesquiterpene, (4E)-1-bromo-5-[(1'S*,3'R*)-3'-bromo-2',2'-dimethyl-6'-methylenecyclohexyl]-3-methylpent-4-ene-2,3-diol (1), and fifteen known sesquiterpenes, isopalisol (2), luzonensol (3), palisadin B (4), aplysistatin (5), palisadin A (6), 4-hydroxyl-palisudin C (7), 5-acetoxypalisadin B (8), 10-hydroxyaristolan-9-one (9), aristol-8-en-1-one (10), aristolan-9-en-1-one (11), aristolan-...

Cytotoxic compounds from Laurencia pacifica

BACKGROUND The current investigation sought to explore the nature of the secondary metabolites in the algae, Laurencia pacifica. RESULTS This report details the first isolation of the sesquiterpenes isoaplysin (1), isolaurenisol (2), debromoisolaurinterol (3), debromoaplysinol (4), laur-11-en-10-ol (5), 10α-hydroxyldebromoepiaplysin (6), and the previously unknown 10-bromo-3,7,11,11-tetrameth...

Op-brai140122 1907..1920

1 Genetics of Neurodegenerative and Metabolic Diseases Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy 2 Clinic of Central and Peripheral Degenerative Neuropathies Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy 3 Clinical Neurophysiology Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 1...