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Natural Product Communications2007Volume 2, Number 1ContentsOriginal paperPageLeishmanicidal Activity of Artemisinin, Deoxoartemisinin, Artemether and ArteetherClaudio M. Lezama-Dávila, Abhay R. Satoskar, Mirna Úc-Encalada, Ricardo Isaac-Márquez andAngélica P. Isaac-Márquez 1A New Irregular Diterpenoid of Biogenetic Interest from the Flowers of Magydaris tomentosa(Desf.) DC. (Apiaceae)Sergio Rosselli, Antonella Maria Maggio, Gabriella Bellone, Carmen Formisano, Felice Senatore andMaurizio Bruno 5A Bioactive Diterpene from Entada abyssinicaAlembert T. Tchinda, Victorine Fuendjiep, Yalemtsehay Mekonnen, Bernadette B. Ngo andErmias Dagne 9Chemical Variation in the Diterpenes from the Brazilian Brown Alga Dictyota mertensii(Dictyotaceae, Phaeophyta)Odinéia do Socorro Pamplona Freitas, Aline Santos de Oliveira, Joel Campos De-Paula,Renato Crespo Pereira, Diana Negrão Cavalcanti and Valéria Laneuville Teixeira 13Analysis and Antiproliferative Activity of Bark Extractives of Betula neoalaskana andB. papyrifera. Synthesis of the Most Active Extractive Component - Betulin 3-CaffeateIgor V. Kolomitsyn, Jon Holy, Edward Perkins and Pavel A. Krasutsky 17Three Pregnane Glycosides from Pergularia pallidaSangeeta Srivastava, Naveen K. Khare and Anakshi Khare 27Steroidal Glycosides from the Underground Parts of Agapanthus inapertus and TheirCytotoxic ActivityAkihito Yokosuka and Yoshihiro Mimaki 35New Neuritogenic Steroid Glycosides from the Vietnamese Starfish Linckia laevigataAlla A. Kicha, Natalia V. Ivanchina, Anatoly I. Kalinovsky, Pavel S. Dmitrenok, Natalia V. Palyanova,Tatyana M. Pankova, Marina V. Starostina, Margherita Gavagnin and Valentin A. Stonik 41Synthesis of Polyhydroxylated Δ 13 -17,17-dialkyl-18-norsteroids by BF 3·Et 2 O/Ac 2 O-promotedWagner-Meerwein Rearrangement of FurostanolsMartín A. Iglesias-Arteaga, José. M. Mendez-Stivalet and Nury Pérez 47Abruptoside A, A Novel Glycolipid from the Kenyan Soft Coral Sinularia abruptaGuy Shmul, Yehuda Benayahu and Yoel Kashman 51Phenolic Constituents of Leaves of Diospyros montanaToshiyuki Tanaka, Miyuki Furusawa, Tetsuro Ito, Ibrahim Iliya, Masayoshi Oyama, Munekazu Iinuma,Nobuyuki Tanaka and Jin Murata 55The Effect of Cinnamtannin B1 on Cell Proliferation and Glucose Uptake of 3T3-L1 CellsMuhammad Taher, Fadzilah Adibah Abdul Majid and Mohamad Roji Sarmidi 61Synthesis of Hypericin via Emodin Anthrone Derived from a Two-fold Diels-Alder Reactionof 1,4-BenzoquinoneJiro Motoyoshiya, Yusuke Masue, Yoshinori Nishi and Hiromu Aoyama 67Naturally Occurring 1,1’-Trimethylenebisuracil from the Marine Sea Hare Dolabella auriculariaTadigoppula Narender, Tanvir Khaliq and M. N. Srivastava 71Continued inside back page