Isoflavene

{{Short description|Class of chemical compounds}} thumb|Glabrene thumb|2-Methoxyjudaicin thumb|Haginin D

'''Isoflavenes''' are a type of isoflavonoids.

== Examples == * Glabrene, found in the roots of liquorice, is also a xenoestrogen.<ref>{{Cite journal|pmid=15336701|year=2004|last1=Somjen|first1=D|last2=Katzburg|first2=S|last3=Vaya|first3=J|last4=Kaye|first4=AM|last5=Hendel|first5=D|last6=Posner|first6=GH|last7=Tamir|first7=S|title=Estrogenic activity of glabridin and glabrene from licorice roots on human osteoblasts and prepubertal rat skeletal tissues|volume=91|issue=4–5|pages=241–246|doi=10.1016/j.jsbmb.2004.04.008|journal=The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology|s2cid=16238533}}</ref> * 2-Methoxyjudaicin found in the roots of ''Cicer bijugum''<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0031-9422(96)00757-1|title=2-Methoxyjudaicin, an isoflavene from the roots of Cicer bijugum|year=1997|last1=Veitch|first1=Nigel C.|last2=Stevenson|first2=Philip C.|journal=Phytochemistry|volume=44|issue=8|pages=1587–1589}}</ref> * Haginin D * Idronoxil, also known as phenoxodiol, which is used for anticancer purposes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Georgaki|first1=Sylvianna|last2=Skopeliti|first2=Margarita|last3=Tsiatas|first3=Marinos|last4=Nicolaou|first4=Katerina A.|last5=Ioannou|first5=Kyriaki|last6=Husband|first6=Alan|last7=Bamias|first7=Aristotelis|last8=Dimopoulos|first8=Meletios A.|last9=Constantinou|first9=Andreas I.|last10=Tsitsilonis|first10=Ourania E.|date=September 2009|title=Phenoxodiol, an anticancer isoflavene, induces immunomodulatory effects in vitro and in vivo|journal=Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine|volume=13|issue=9B|pages=3929–3938|doi=10.1111/j.1582-4934.2009.00695.x|issn=1582-4934|pmc=4516540|pmid=19220577}}</ref>

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Category:Isoflavonoids