Honokiol Dimers and Magnolol Derivatives with New Carbon Skeletons from the Roots of Magnolia officinalis and Their Inhibitory Effects on Superoxide Anion Generation and Elastase Release

• Hung-Cheng Shih ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Cheng Shih, Tsong-Long Hwang

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Tsong-Long Hwang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Cheng Shih, Tsong-Long Hwang

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Natural Products and Chinese Herbal Medicine Research Team, Healthy Aging Research Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Hung-Chung Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Ping-Chung Kuo,

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan

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• E-Jian Lee,

  Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Anesthesiology, and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Medical Center and Medical School, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Hsiung Lee,

  Affiliations Natural Products Research Laboratories, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Chinese Medicinal Research and Development Center, China Medical University and Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Tian-Shung Wu

  * E-mail: tswu@mail.ncku.edu.tw

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Chinese Medicinal Research and Development Center, China Medical University and Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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