"Euphorbia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A large plant genus of the family EUPHORBIACEAE, order Euphorbiales, subclass Rosidae. They have a milky sap and a female flower consisting of a single pistil, surrounded by numerous male flowers of one stamen each. Euphorbia hirta is rarely called milkweed but that name is normally used for ASCLEPIAS.
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D028481
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.940.800.575.912.250.350.333
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Euphorbia" by people in Profiles.
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Mirza B, Kondratyuk TP, Park EJ, Burns BE, Marler LE, Pezzuto JM. Preliminary evaluation for cancer chemopreventive and cytotoxic potential of naturally growing ethnobotanically selected plants of Pakistan. Pharm Biol. 2013 Mar; 51(3):316-28.
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MacNeil A, Sumba OP, Lutzke ML, Moormann A, Rochford R. Activation of the Epstein-Barr virus lytic cycle by the latex of the plant Euphorbia tirucalli. Br J Cancer. 2003 May 19; 88(10):1566-9.
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Su BN, Park EJ, Mbwambo ZH, Santarsiero BD, Mesecar AD, Fong HH, Pezzuto JM, Kinghorn AD. New chemical constituents of Euphorbia quinquecostata and absolute configuration assignment by a convenient Mosher ester procedure carried out in NMR tubes. J Nat Prod. 2002 Sep; 65(9):1278-82.