"Escin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Pentacyclic triterpene saponins, biosynthesized from protoaescigenin and barringtogenol, occurring in the seeds of AESCULUS. It inhibits edema formation and decreases vascular fragility.
| Descriptor ID |
D004928
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.849.919.530.333 D09.408.782.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Opino- Opino
- opino-biomo
- opino biomo
- opinobiomo
beta-Escin- beta-Escin
- beta Escin
- beta-Aescin
- beta Aescin
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Escin" by people in Profiles.
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ß-Escin inhibits NNK-induced lung adenocarcinoma and ALDH1A1 and RhoA/Rock expression in A/J mice and growth of H460 human lung cancer cells. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2013 Oct; 6(10):1140-9.