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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 651275, 5 pages
doi:10.1100/2012/651275
Research Article

Novel Ecdysteroids from Serratula wolffii

Attila Ványolós,1 Zoltán Béni,2 Miklós Dékány,2 András Simon,3 and Mária Báthori1

1Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Szeged, Eötvös utca 6, 6720 Szeged, Hungary
2Spectroscopic Research, Gedeon Richter Plc., Gyömrői út 19–21, 1103 Budapest, Hungary
3Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Szent. Gellért tér 4, 1111 Budapest, Hungary

Received 24 October 2011; Accepted 28 December 2011

Academic Editors: D. Bussiere, G. W. Daughdrill, and J. Uppenberg

Copyright © 2012 Attila Ványolós et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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