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16 April 2009

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Identification of LL-37 as a Molecular Target for Boswellic Acids

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Pharmaceutical Institute, Eberhard Karls University, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
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Gum resin extracts of Boswellia serrata have been traditionally applied in folk medicine for the treatment of various inflammatory diseases. Analyses of these extracts identified a group of pentacyclic triterpenes, the boswellic acids (BAs), as active principles that might be responsible for some of the observed anti-inflammatory effects.[...]

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