1 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern Medical University 2 Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Inselspital, Bern Medical University 3 Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Bern, Bern, 4 Swiss Toxicological Information Centre, Zürich, Switzerland 5 Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and General Intensive Care Medicine, Salzburg General Hospit...

There is no other naturally occurring defense agent against cancer that has a stronger effectthan paclitaxel, commonly known under the brand name of Taxol®. The major drawback for themore widespread use of paclitaxel and its precious precursor, 10-deacetylbaccatin III (10-DABIII), is that they require large-scale extraction from different parts of yew trees (Taxus species),cell cultures, taxane...

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Isolation and identification of some potent anti-tumor compounds from medicinal plants, has motivated researchers to screen different parts of plant species for anti-tumor effects. It has been reported that several conifer posses cytotoxic activities on some human tumor cell lines. In this study, male and female branchlets or fruit of four different species of Iranian conifers (Juniperus Sabina...