Catharanthus
"Catharanthus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A plant genus of the family Apocynaceae. It is the source of VINCA ALKALOIDS, used in leukemia chemotherapy.
| Descriptor ID |
D030008
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.940.800.575.100.081.260
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| Concept/Terms |
Catharanthus roseus- Catharanthus roseus
- roseus, Catharanthus
- Periwinkle, Madagascar
- Madagascar Periwinkle
- Vinca rosea
- Vinca roseas
- rosea, Vinca
- roseas, Vinca
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Catharanthus" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Pandey K, Anas M, Hicks VK, Green MJ, Khodakovskaya MV. Improvement of Commercially Valuable Traits of Industrial Crops by Application of Carbon-based Nanomaterials. Sci Rep. 2019 12 18; 9(1):19358.
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McGehee DL, Alimohammadi M, Khodakovskaya MV. Carbon-based nanomaterials as stimulators of production of pharmaceutically active alkaloids in cell culture of Catharanthus roseus. Nanotechnology. 2019 Jul 05; 30(27):275102.