forsythialan

English

Noun

forsythialan (plural forsythialans)

1. Any of a class of lignans found in plants of the genus Forsythia.
   • 2015 July 2, Yi-ping Guo, Li-gen Lin, Yi-tao Wang, “Chemistry and pharmacology of the herb pair Flos Lonicerae japonicae-Forsythiae fructus”, in Chinese Medicine‎^[1], volume 10, →DOI:

     A study using a 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging experiment found that the CH 2 Cl 2 fraction of F. suspensa exerted the strongest scavenging activity and suggested that forsythialan A and phillygenin F are the major antioxidant constituents [ 51, 52 ].