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  • noun chemistry a terpenoid having a C30 skeleton
  • adjective chemistry of, or relating to a triterpene or triterpenoid

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Examples

  • Its active constituents are ginsenosides or triterpenoid saponin glycosides, which may have beneficial effects on fatigue and the immune system and have antidiabetic and anti-impotence effects.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • Its active constituents are ginsenosides or triterpenoid saponin glycosides, which may have beneficial effects on fatigue and the immune system and have antidiabetic and anti-impotence effects.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • Yet a third triterpenoid isolated from neem is salannin.

    4 What's in a Neem 1992

  • Part XVI I l: 28—hydroxyglycyrrhetic acid, a new triterpenoid isolated from the roots of Glycyrrhiza glabra.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • Gurfinkel DM (2000) The bioactivity of saponins: triterpenoid and steroidal glycosides.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

  • California ivy, Hedera helix contains triterpenoid saponins that, should pets ingest, can result in diarrhea.

    www2.wsav.com - News 2010

  • Lyrica was a Flonase And Afrin Nasal Spray Together for me for about 18 exsists but as they say all triterpenoid claws must translate to an end.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • Gurfinkel DM (2000) The bioactivity of saponins: triterpenoid and steroidal glycosides.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Janina K. Hellmann et al. 2010

  • Some of the chemical constituents in the plant are triterpenoid saponins, lectins, antiviral proteins and many phytolaccagenic acids, which are not completely understood.

    Find Me A Cure 2009

  • Left ventricular section sections and RNAs were prepared for immunochemical staining and quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) analysis as previously described A novel synthetic triterpenoid, dihydro-CDDO-trifluoroethyl amide (dh404) of

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

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