The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged...

(Dioscorea mexicana) and Barbasco (Dioscorea composita). The demand for barbasco by Syntex initiated the Mexican barbasco trade. As the American Chemistry...

contraceptive pill and synthetic cortisone – and to the development of the Mexican barbasco trade. He was born on March 12, 1902, in Hagerstown, Maryland. He received...

and manufacture of hormones from D. mexicana at Syntex. Later the Mexican barbasco trade focused instead on Dioscorea composita instead, as this variety...

Dioscorea communis (L.) Caddick & Wilkin, see Tamus communis. Yams Mexican barbasco trade Couto, Ricardo S; Martins, Aline C; Bolson, Mônica; Lopes, Rosana...

compete against Syntex, he would have to use the same Mexican yam, obtained from the Mexican barbasco trade, as his starting material. Julian used his own money...

or sapogenins. The efforts of Syntex, a company involved in the Mexican barbasco trade, used Dioscorea mexicana to produce the sapogenin diosgenin in the...

US2656364A of 1951, describing its conversion into 17-ketosteroids. Mexican barbasco trade us 5808117, Pritish Kumar Chowdhury, "Process for the production...

Mexican States". The phrase República Mexicana, "Mexican Republic", was used in the 1836 Constitutional Laws. The earliest human artifacts in Mexico are...

progesterone from diosgenin-containing Mexican yams, which would eventually give rise to the Mexican barbasco trade.: 183  After a disagreement Marker left...