PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hanuš, Lumír O.
AU  - Řezanka, Tomáš
AU  - Dembitsky, Valery M.
AU  - Moussaieff, Arieh
TI  - Myrrh - Commiphora chemistry
DP  - 2005 Jul 1
TA  - Biomedical papers
PG  - 3--28
VI  - 149
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/bp.2005.001
IS  - 12138118
AB  - Myrrh and opopanax has been used throughout history in incense and as a perfume. Since Bible times it has been used for the treatment of wounds. The first attempts to identify content compounds were almost 100 years ago. In this review we discuss the present state of knowledge in the chemistry of substances of Commiphora spp.