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  • adjective Of or pertaining to oleanolic acid or its derivatives

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  • In fact, triterpenoids of oleanolic acid (OA) and ursolic acid (UA) have emerged to be attractive drug scaffolds because they are relatively non-toxic, cytoprotective, hypoglycemic, anti-inflammatory, anti-hyperlipidemic, and anti-tumorigenic

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomonaga Ichikawa et al. 2009

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