“…The previous phytochemical investigation with some species of Annonaceae led to the isolation and characterization of different classes of secondary metabolites, such as monoterpenes, diterpenes, triterpenes, lignans, flavonoids, asarone-derived phenylpropanoids, acetogenins and mainly typical isoquinoline-derived alkaloids [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Some of these secondary metabolites isolated from Annonaceae species exhibited important biological activities, such as anti-inflammatory and urease-inhibiting properties [ 8 , 9 ], trypanocidal [ 10 , 11 ], leishmanicidal [ 11 , 12 ], antimalarial [ 4 , 13 ], antimicrobial [ 4 , 14 , 15 ], antioxidant and antirheumatic actions [ 9 , 15 ] and, particularly, cytotoxic activity against different human tumor cell lines [ 4 , 6 , 11 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ].…”