illudane

English

Noun

illudane (plural illudanes)

1. A toxic spirocyclic sesquiterpenoids produced by various bracken ferns and by fungi of the phylum Basidiomycota.
   • 1997, Virtual Activity, Real Pharmacology, page 187:

     As previously reported illudanes are antibacterial, antifungal and antitumor agents but very toxic.

   • 2009, Jorg D. Hardege, Chemical Ecology, page 236:

     Of major interest is the fact that ptaquiloside in ruminants is transported to the udder and from there to milk, containing as much as 8% of the illudane present in the feed.

   • 2017, A. Douglas Kinghorn, Heinz Falk, Simon Gibbons, Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, page 103:

     Most illudanes exhibit cytotoxic effects toward many tumor cell lines and some are regarded as having a high potential as anticancer drug lead compounds.