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A note on Evodia rutaecarpa
Phytomedicine 19 (2012) 1244
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References
I read with interest the article entitled: “Evodiamine, a dual catalytic inhibitor of type I and II topoisomerases, exhibits enhanced inhibition against camptothecin resistant cells” (Pan et al., 2012). This article is quite interesting and they should be complimented for the significant amount of work they have done. The purpose of this letter is to call attention to the need for some clarification on the name of the plant described in this article. Pang et al. state: “alkaloid isolated from the fruit of a traditional Chinese medicinal plant, Evodia rutaecarpa”. I have been studying the pharmacotoxicological properties of the medicinal plants of Asia and the Pacific for the last 15 years (Wiart, 2006a,b, 2010, 2012) and the sole members of the family Rutaceae recorded in China belong to the genus Tetradium Lour., Phellodendron Rupr., Melicope J.R. Forst. & G. Forst., Maclurodendron T.G. Hartley, Acronychia J.R. Forst. & G. Forst., Haplophyllum A. Juss., Dictamnus L., Boenninghausenia Rchb. ex Meisn., Psilopeganum Hemsl., Zanthoxylum L., Toddalia Juss., Orixa Thunb., Skimmia Thunb., Citrus L., Aegle Corrêa, Micromelum Bl., Glycosmis Corrêa, Paramignya Wight, Atalantia Corrêa, Luvunga Buch.-Ham. ex Wight & Arn., Clausena Burm.f. and Murraya J. König ex L. (Zhengyi et al., 2008). The sole possible plant that could be used here is Tetradium ruticarpum (A. Juss.) T.G. Hartley (Rutaceae Juss.).
Pan, X., Hartley, J.M., Hartley, J.A., White, K.N., Wang, Z., Bligh, S.W.A., 2012. Evodiamine, a dual catalytic inhibitor of type I and II topoisomerases, exhibits enhanced inhibition against camptothecin resistant cells. Phytomedicine 19, 618–624. Wiart, C., 2006a. Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants: Asia and the Pacific. Humana Press, Boca Raton, USA. Wiart, C., 2006b. Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific. CRC Press, New York, USA. Wiart, C., 2010. Medicinal Plants from the East. University of Nottingham Press, UK. Wiart, C., 2012. Medicinal Plants from China and its Neighborhood: Bioresource from Tomorrow’s Drug and Cosmetic Discovery. CRC Press, New York. Zhengyi, W., Raven, P.H., Deyuan, H., 2008. Flora of China Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae, vol. 11. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, USA.
0944-7113/$ – see front matter © 2012 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2012.09.013
C. Wiart ∗ School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK ∗ Tel.:
+44 0115 823 0141; fax: +44 0115 823 0143. E-mail address: [email protected]
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Phytomedicine journal homepage: www.elsevier.de/phymed
Correspondence A note on Evodia rutaecarpa
References
I read with interest the article entitled: “Evodiamine, a dual catalytic inhibitor of type I and II topoisomerases, exhibits enhanced inhibition against camptothecin resistant cells” (Pan et al., 2012). This article is quite interesting and they should be complimented for the significant amount of work they have done. The purpose of this letter is to call attention to the need for some clarification on the name of the plant described in this article. Pang et al. state: “alkaloid isolated from the fruit of a traditional Chinese medicinal plant, Evodia rutaecarpa”. I have been studying the pharmacotoxicological properties of the medicinal plants of Asia and the Pacific for the last 15 years (Wiart, 2006a,b, 2010, 2012) and the sole members of the family Rutaceae recorded in China belong to the genus Tetradium Lour., Phellodendron Rupr., Melicope J.R. Forst. & G. Forst., Maclurodendron T.G. Hartley, Acronychia J.R. Forst. & G. Forst., Haplophyllum A. Juss., Dictamnus L., Boenninghausenia Rchb. ex Meisn., Psilopeganum Hemsl., Zanthoxylum L., Toddalia Juss., Orixa Thunb., Skimmia Thunb., Citrus L., Aegle Corrêa, Micromelum Bl., Glycosmis Corrêa, Paramignya Wight, Atalantia Corrêa, Luvunga Buch.-Ham. ex Wight & Arn., Clausena Burm.f. and Murraya J. König ex L. (Zhengyi et al., 2008). The sole possible plant that could be used here is Tetradium ruticarpum (A. Juss.) T.G. Hartley (Rutaceae Juss.).
Pan, X., Hartley, J.M., Hartley, J.A., White, K.N., Wang, Z., Bligh, S.W.A., 2012. Evodiamine, a dual catalytic inhibitor of type I and II topoisomerases, exhibits enhanced inhibition against camptothecin resistant cells. Phytomedicine 19, 618–624. Wiart, C., 2006a. Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants: Asia and the Pacific. Humana Press, Boca Raton, USA. Wiart, C., 2006b. Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific. CRC Press, New York, USA. Wiart, C., 2010. Medicinal Plants from the East. University of Nottingham Press, UK. Wiart, C., 2012. Medicinal Plants from China and its Neighborhood: Bioresource from Tomorrow’s Drug and Cosmetic Discovery. CRC Press, New York. Zhengyi, W., Raven, P.H., Deyuan, H., 2008. Flora of China Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae, vol. 11. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, USA.
0944-7113/$ – see front matter © 2012 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2012.09.013
C. Wiart ∗ School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK ∗ Tel.:
+44 0115 823 0141; fax: +44 0115 823 0143. E-mail address: [email protected]