Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) as a New Source of Taxol and Taxanes

• Main Authors: A Qaderi (Author), M Omidi (Author), A Etminan (Author), A Oladzad (Author), C Ebrahimi (Author), MR Dehghani Mashkani (Author), A Mehrafarin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Institue of Medicinal Plants, ACECR, 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Taxol is used to treatment of variety cancers including ovarian, breast, lung, head and neck carcinomas and the AIDS-related Karposi's carcinoma, and was originally obtained from bark of taxus brevifolia. However the amount of extracted taxol from taxus is extremely low and cannot be considered...