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SUBMITTER: Tawfeek N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7908037 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tawfeek Nora N Mahmoud Mona F MF Hamdan Dalia I DI Sobeh Mansour M Farrag Nawaal N Wink Michael M El-Shazly Assem M AM
Frontiers in pharmacology 20210212
The Willows (genus <i>Salix</i>), with more than 330-500 species and 200 hybrids, are trees, shrubs or prostrate plants that are widely distributed in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia. The genus is traditionally used in folk medicine and represents a valuable source of biologically active compounds among them salicin, a prodrug for salicylic acid. Altogether, 322 secondary metabolites were characterized in the genus including flavonoids 94) (flavonols, flavones, flavanones, isoflavones, f ...[more]