Maquiroside A, a new cytotoxic cardiac glycoside from Maquira calophylla.

Maquiroside A, a new cardiac glycoside, was isolated from the Peruvian plant Maquira calophylla. The structure was established using spectroscopic methods, and the aglycone was found to be cannogenol. The sugar portion was identified as D-cymarose.

[Hypertrichosis in the malformative syndrome of Cornelia de Lange (author's transl)].

Some hypertrichoses are included in polymalformative syndroms. The authors, make a brief summary, about an observation of Typus Amstelodamensis.

[Interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 7 in a female child with leprechaunism].

A case of interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 7 with probable loss of segment 7q2 is reported in a infant with leprechaunism. This association suggests the possibility of a heterozygous deletion of the normal allele at the leprechaun locus.