Three new C-glycosyflavones with acetyl substitutions from Swertia mileensis.

abstract：:Four hydrolyzable tannins [oenothein B (1), eugeniflorin D(2) (2), and tellimagrandins I (3) and II (4)], two related polyphenolic compounds [gallic acid (5) and quinic acid 3,5-di-O-gallate (6)], and four myricetin glycosides [myricetins 3-O-beta-D-xyloside (7), 3-O-beta-D-galactoside (8), 3-O-beta-D-galactoside 6''-...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Yoshimura M,Amakura Y,Tokuhara M,Yoshida T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominant feature of type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance. Identifying a drug able to reduce insulin resistance is an urgent requirement. ent-3α-Formylabieta-8(14),13(15)-dien-16,12β-olide had been identified as a new diterpene derivative which showed anticancer activity. This study explores the hypoglycemic ef...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Hou P,Qu Y,Liao Z,Zhao S,Feng Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed at investigating the effect of carvacrol on hepatic mitochondrial enzyme activities and DNA damage in D: -galactosamine (D: -GalN)-induced hepatotoxicity in male albino Wistar rats. The activities of hepatic mitochondrial enzymes such as isocitrate dehydrogenase, α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, ...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Aristatile B,Al-Numair KS,Al-Assaf AH,Pugalendi KV

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The known seco-cucurbitane triterpene, (24E)-3,4-seco-cucurbita-4,24-diene-3,26,29-trioic acid (1), has been isolated as a potent protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) 1B inhibitor together with a new analogue, (24E)-3,4-seco-cucurbita-4,24-diene-3-hydroxy-26,29-dioic acid (2), from the fruiting bodies of Russula lepida....

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Maarisit W,Yamazaki H,Kanno SI,Tomizawa A,Lee JS,Namikoshi M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel monoterpenes, sibiscolacton (1) and sibiraic acid (2), were isolated from the aerial part of Sibiraea angustata RCHD: . along with seven known compounds, namely three phenylpropanoids (3-5), two flavonoids (6,7), one glucityl ferulate (8, sibirate), and a monoterpene glucoside (9, sibiskoside). The structure...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Li B,Lee JB,Hayashi K,Ito Y,Sun WJ,Wang X,Kano Y,Hayashi T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are associated with a non-enzymatic reaction between the amino group of a protein and the carbonyl group of a sugar during hyperglycemia. The precipitation of AGEs in different tissues leads to many complications, such as endothelial dysfunction, cardiovascular complications, ath...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Abdallah HM,El-Bassossy HM,Mohamed GA,El-Halawany AM,Alshali KZ,Banjar ZM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we found that both synthetic 3-O-methylquercetin (3MQ) and 3,4',7-O-trimethylquercetin (34'7TMQ) increased extracellular melanin content. 34'7TMQ increased the activity of melanogenic enzymes by stimulating the p38 pathway and the expression of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF)...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Yamauchi K,Mitsunaga T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the dried rhizomes of Curcuma comosa cultivating in Thailand, 26 known sesquiterpenes were isolated: zederone, zederone epoxide, furanodienone, isofuranodienone, 1(10)Z,4Z-furanodiene-6-one, glechomanolide, dehydrocurdione, neocurdione, curdione, 7 alpha-hydroxyneocurdione, 7 beta-hydroxycurdione, germacrone-1(10...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Qu Y,Xu F,Nakamura S,Matsuda H,Pongpiriyadacha Y,Wu L,Yoshikawa M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimosa pudica is used in traditional medicine for treating various disorders such as inflammatory conditions, diarrhoea, insomnia, alopecia, urogenital infections and wounds. The present study investigated the effect of M. pudica extract (MPE) on L-arginine-induced acute necrotising pancreatitis in rats. The ethanolic...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Kaur J,Sidhu S,Chopra K,Khan MU

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article Comparison of glycyrrhizin content in 25 major kinds of Kampo extracts containing Glycyrrhizae Radix used clinically in Japan, written by Mitsuhiko Nose, Momoka Tada, Rika Kojima, Kumiko Nagata, Shinsuke Hisaka, Sayaka Masada, Masato Homma and Takashi Hakamatsuka, was originally published Online First with...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Nose M,Tada M,Kojima R,Nagata K,Hisaka S,Masada S,Homma M,Hakamatsuka T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunoassay system was established for the estimation of the quantity of an antitumor cyclic hexapeptide RA-VII (1) from Rubia cordifolia L. and R. akane Nakai (Rubiaceae). First, 1 was converted into its hapten, which was then conjugated with a carrier protein to be used as an effective antigen to obtain its monoc...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Hasuda T,Hitotsuyanagi Y,Takeya K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aloperine (ALO), one of the alkaloids isolated from Sophora alopecuroides L., is traditionally used for various diseases including neuronal disorders. This study investigated the protective effects of ALO on neonatal rat primary-cultured hippocampal neurons injured by oxygen-glucose deprivation and reperfusion (OGD/RP...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Ma NT,Zhou R,Chang RY,Hao YJ,Ma L,Jin SJ,Du J,Zheng J,Zhao CJ,Niu Y,Sun T,Li W,Koike K,Yu JQ,Li YX

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successive oral administration (50 mg/kg) of a 50% ethanolic extract (HP-ext) of devil's claw, the secondary root of Harpagophytum procumbens, showed a significant anti-inflammatory effect in the rat adjuvant-induced chronic arthritis model. HP-ext dose-dependently suppressed the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced produ...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Inaba K,Murata K,Naruto S,Matsuda H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancient Chinese medicine treatises on Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (AMR), the rhizome of Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz, indicated that it possessed an expectorant effect. However, in modern times, it is commonly used as a tocolytic agent. In this study, the components of AMR that are responsible for its expect...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Wang X,Li L,Ran X,Dou D,Li B,Yang B,Li W,Koike K,Kuang H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrandrine is a cytotoxic compound capable of exerting remarkable antitumor activity against many cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. However, little is known about its effect on human renal cell carcinoma (RCC). In the present study, using RCC 786-O, 769-P and ACHN cell lines as the model system, we demonstrated the ...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Chen T,Ji B,Chen Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pine needle extract (PE) and fermented pine needle extract (FPE) have been reported to show various biological and pharmacological activities such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-cholesterol, gastrointestinal motility control, and fibrinolytic effect. The aims of our research were to isolate fi...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Park J,Lee B,Choi H,Kim W,Kim HJ,Cheong H

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the protective effects of combined therapy of garlic homogenate and hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) in animals with hypertension and myocardial damage. Three weeks of high fructose (10% w/v) in fluid to albino rats resulted in hypertension. They were subsequently administ...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Asdaq SM,Inamdar MN

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nardostachys jatamansi (NJ) has been used in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. However, it is not clear how NJ produces anti-inflammatory effects. In the present study, using an experimental model of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced endotoxin shock, the protective effects and mechanisms of action of NJ were inve...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Bae GS,Seo SW,Kim MS,Park KC,Koo BS,Jung WS,Cho GH,Oh HC,Yun SW,Kim JJ,Kim SG,Hwang SY,Song HJ,Park SJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antihypertensive treatment is highly important to prevent the progression of chronic kidney disease. Shichimotsukokato (SKT), a traditional Japanese medicine (i.e., Kampo formula), lowered systolic blood pressure (SBP) in experimental animal models of hypertension. However, its mechanism of action has not been fully e...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Ma Y,Fujimoto M,Watari H,Kimura M,Shimada Y

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight new furostanol glycosides (1-8), together with two known ones (9 and 10), have been isolated from a glycoside-enriched fraction prepared from the rhizomes of Helleborus orientalis (Ranunculaceae). The structures of 1-8 were determined on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analysis, including 2D NMR, and the re...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Mimaki Y,Matsuo Y,Watanabe K,Sakagami H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous study, piperlonguminine from the fruit of Piper chaba was reported to promote adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells like the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) agonist, troglitazone. In the present study, the mode of action of piperlonguminine in cells was examined. Piperlonguminine increased ...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Yamaguchi I,Matsuda H,Zhang H,Hamao M,Yamashita C,Kogami Y,Kon'I H,Murata M,Nakamura S,Yoshikawa M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline hydrolysis of the ether-insoluble resin glycoside (convolvulin) fraction of the seeds of Quamoclit × multifida (syn. Q. sloteri House, Convolvulaceae), a hybrid between Q. pennat and Q. coccinea, gave three new glycosidic acids (maltifidinic acids C, D, and E) along with three known glycosidic acids (quamocli...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Ono M,Kishida M,Ikegami Y,Takaki Y,Okawa M,Kinjo J,Yoshimitsu H,Nohara T,Miyahara K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phellodendri Cortex (Obaku in Japanese) and Coptidis Rhizoma (Oren), both of which contain berberine, have been used to prepare the kampo formula orengedokuto to treat inflammatory diseases, including dermatitis, gastric ulcers, and gastritis. These drugs are blended differently in other formulas, such as the use of P...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Fujii A,Okuyama T,Wakame K,Okumura T,Ikeya Y,Nishizawa M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evodiae fructus (EF), a fruit of Evodia rutaecarpa Bentham, has long been used as an analgesic drug in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. However, the underlying molecular mechanism of its pharmacological action is unclear. Here, using calcium imaging, whole-cell patch-clamp recording, and behavioral analysis,...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Iwaoka E,Wang S,Matsuyoshi N,Kogure Y,Aoki S,Yamamoto S,Noguchi K,Dai Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) manifests as mechanical allodynia and hyperalgesia, and is one of the main adverse effects of chemotherapeutic agents. Currently available therapeutic drugs are not sufficiently effective for the management of this adverse effect in the clinic. Therefore, the developme...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Yu H,Toume K,Kurokawa Y,Andoh T,Komatsu K

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acyclic diterpene (plaunotol; 1) and two furanoditerpenes (plaunolide, 2 and plaunol E, 3), were isolated from Croton stellatopilosus leaves, and assessed for their inhibitory activity on nitric oxide (NO) production by lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced RAW264.7 cells. Plaunotol, plaunolide and plaunol E exhibited i...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Premprasert C,Tewtrakul S,Plubrukarn A,Wungsintaweekul J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new compounds, (3S)-dihydrobonducellin 8-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (1), 3',5'-dimethoxy-jezonolid (2), and latisilinoid (3), along with 16 known compounds, were isolated from the twigs of Caesalpinia latisiliqua (Leguminosae). The known compounds were identified as flavonoids, stilbenes, and phenolics as determined ...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Oh M,Park S,Song JH,Ko HJ,Kim SH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new cucurbitane-type triterpenes were isolated from the fruit of Momordica charantia L. The structures of the new compounds were identified based on HR-ESI-MS and 1D- and 2D-NMR spectroscopic methods. The cytotoxicity of the isolated compounds was evaluated using three human cancer cell lines, HeLa, Caco2, and U8...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Yue J,Sun Y,Xu J,Zhang X,Zhao Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aged garlic extract (AGE), a garlic preparation rich in water-soluble cysteinyl moieties, has been reported to have multiple beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease including inhibition of platelet aggregation. However, the mode of AGE action on platelets has not been clear. In this study, we examined the effect ...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Morihara N,Hino A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shakuyakukanzoto (SKT) is a kampo medicine composed of equal proportions of Glycyrrhizae radix (G. radix) and Paeoniae radix (P. radix). A double-blind study reported that SKT significantly ameliorated painful muscle cramp in cirrhosis patients without the typical severe side effects of muscle weakness and central ner...

journal_title：Journal of natural medicines

authors： Kaifuchi N,Omiya Y,Kushida H,Fukutake M,Nishimura H,Kase Y

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00