• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.42-44
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• 1994

The activity-guided fractionation of some medicinal plants led to yield five kinds of natural stilbene compounds namely 3, 5-dihydroxy-4'-methoxystillbene(I), rhapontigenin(II), reveratrol(III), rhaponticin(IV) and piceid(V) and two common flavonoids, apigenin(VI) and luteolin(VII) as active principles of the antitumor property, in vitro, against five kinds of human tumor cell lines, A-549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2, XF-498 and HCT15.