Cytotoxic limonoids from Melia azedarach.

abstract：:Tuberculosis is the main cause of death from a single infectious agent. Globally, according to the World Health Organization, in 2018, there were an estimated 1.2 million tuberculosis deaths. Moreover, there is a continuous appearance of drug-resistant strains. Thus, development of new antituberculosis medicines shoul...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Guzmán-Gutiérrez SL,Silva-Miranda M,Krengel F,Huerta-Salazar E,León-Santiago M,Díaz-Cantón JK,Espitia Pinzón C,Reyes-Chilpa R

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:From stem barks of Isolona guesquiereina three known bisbenzylisoquinolines were isolated and identified as (-)-curine, chondrofoline and isochondodendrine. Structures were established mainly on the basis of comparison of their physical and spectral data with published data for them and their methylated derivatives. C...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Mambu L,Martin MT,Razafimahefa D,Ramanitrahasimbola D,Rasoanaivo P,Frappier F

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four p-terphenyl derivatives named curtisians I-L (1-4) were isolated from the MeOH extract of the fruit bodies of Paxillus curtisii. Their structures were elucidated by 2D NMR, MS, IR and UV spectroscopy and chemical reaction. The absolute configurations of curtisians were determined by GC-MS on a chiral column of th...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Quang DN,Hashimoto T,Nukada M,Yamamoto I,Tanaka M,Asakawa Y

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eschsholzia californica Cham. is a traditional medicinal plant of the Indians used by the rural population of California for its analgesic and sedative properties. Our study on the aqueous extract shows that this plant reduced the behavioural parameters measured in a familiar environment test in mice (novelty preferen...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Rolland A,Fleurentin J,Lanhers MC,Younos C,Misslin R,Mortier F,Pelt JM

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of puerarin, an active principle contained in the roots of Pueraria lobata (Leguminosae), on the regulation of glucose metabolism in an insulin deficient state were investigated in cultured myoblast C 2 C 12 cells using glucose uptake as indicator. Puerarin enhanced the uptake of radioactive glucose into C 2 C...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hsu HH,Chang CK,Su HC,Liu IM,Cheng JT

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silybum marianum Gaertn. (Milk thistle) has been used since ancient times for the relief of liver diseases characterized by intense oxidative stress such as inflammatory liver disease and cirrhosis. As oxidative stress by hyperglycemia is involved in micro- and macrovascular complications of type 2 diabetes, our aim w...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Palomino OM,Gouveia NM,Ramos S,Martín MA,Goya L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catharanthus roseus cell suspension cultures were employed for the biotransformation of 2alpha,5alpha,10beta,14beta-tetraacetoxy-4(20),11-taxadiene ( 1), and four metabolites were obtained. Based on their physical and chemical data, the structures of the four metabolites were respectively elucidated as 10beta-hydroxy-...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Dai J,Cui Y,Zhu W,Guo H,Ye M,Hu Q,Zhang D,Zheng J,Guo D

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the anti-asthmatic effects of Perilla seed oil in vitro and in vivo in sensitized guinea pigs. Aerosolized antigen caused an immediate bronchoconstriction. Perilla seed oil per os inhibited the increase in lung resistance and the decrease in dynamic lung compliance in a dose-de...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Deng YM,Xie QM,Zhang SJ,Yao HY,Zhang H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the extremely skin irritant and caustic latex of Excoecaria agallocha the major part of the polyfunctional diterpene esters (DTE) (group I) are aliphatic polyunsaturated 9,13,14-orthoesters of the daphnane-type parent alcohol 5 beta-hydroxyresiniferonol-6 alpha, 7 alpha-epoxide, esterified simultaneously in their 2...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Karalai C,Wiriyachitra P,Opferkuch HJ,Hecker E

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Deacetylcolchiceine (DAC) administered i.p. to rats decreased the level of serum cholesterol and apoB. It was accompanied by the fall of HDL-C due to the decrease of both HDL subfractions HDLa and HDLb, and by a rather weaker decrease of LDL-C. The levels of serum and lipoprotein triacylglycerols were not significan...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Skottová N,Vecera R,Walterová D,Simánek V

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Croton caudatus is an important species in Dai folk medicine. Some other Croton species, in particular, C. kongensis, C. cascarilloides, C. crassifolius, C. lachnocarpus and C. olivaceus are often marketed as C. caudatus, and thus, the therapeutic effects of C. caudatus are not achieved. The respective morphological f...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Xue HG,Zhou SD,He XJ,Yu Y

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new secoiridoid glucosides, jasamplexosides A, B and C, were isolated from the crude drug "Niu du teng", the leaves and stems of JASMINUM AMPLEXICAULE, together with the known secoiridoid glucosides, 10-hydroxyligstroside and jasminoside. Their structural elucidation by spectroscopic studies is described. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Tanahashi T,Shimada A,Nagakura N,Nayeshiro H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh Nagami kumquats (Fortunella margarita) were subjected to hydrodistillation using a Clevenger-type apparatus to obtain volatile oil. The chemical composition of the volatile oil was analyzed by GC-MS using Rtx-5 Sil MS and DB Wax columns. A total of 25 volatile compounds were identified by mass spectra, retention...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Jayaprakasha GK,Murthy KN,Demarais R,Patil BS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, as a result of recent biochemical work, there exists a realistic possibility of taking a molecular genetic approach to the manipulation of alkaloid-producing pathways in plant tissue cultures. In the pathways forming indole alkaloids in CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS, tropane alkaloids in DATURA and HYOSCYAMUS spec...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Robins RJ,Waltons NJ,Hamill JD,Parr AJ,Rhodes MJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jujuboside A (JuA) is a glycoside extracted from the seed of Ziziphus jujuba Mill var. spinosa (Bunge) Hu ex H F Chou, a Chinese herbal medicine, which has long been known as a sedative-hypnotic drug. The present study used the method of intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) JuA in vivo to detect the effect of JuA on paire...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Shou C,Feng Z,Wang J,Zheng X

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an exploratory investigation of antimicrobial promoting compounds, 3- O-acyl-(-)-epicatechins and 3- O-acyl-(+)-catechins possessing various aromatic groups and aliphatic chains of varying length from C4 to C16 for increasing lipophilicity were synthesized and tested for antimicrobial activities against Gram-positi...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Park KD,Park YS,Cho SJ,Sun WS,Kim SH,Jung DH,Kim JH

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our investigation of in vitro antimalarial screening of medicinal herbal extracts, the n-BuOH extract from the root of Wikstroemia indica showed a potent inhibitory effect. Fractionation of the active extract led to the isolation of two biflavonoids, sikokianin B ( 1) and sikokianin C ( 2) with IC (50) values 0.54 ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Nunome S,Ishiyama A,Kobayashi M,Otoguro K,Kiyohara H,Yamada H,Omura S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new phenanthroindolizidine alkaloids, tylophoridicines C-F, together with three known ones, R-(+)-deoxytylophorinidine, tylophorinine and tylophorinidine, were isolated from the roots of Tylophora atrofolliculata. The structures were determined on the basis of spectral evidence. These alkaloids exhibited cytotoxi...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Huang X,Gao S,Fan L,Yu S,Liang X

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ginsenoside Ro, an oleanane-type saponin has been screened for activity in experimental models of acute and chronic hepatitis. Ginsenoside Ro (50 and 200 mg/kg, P.O.) inhibited the increase of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (s-GOT) and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (s-GPT) levels in D-galactosamine (Gal...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Matsuda H,Samukawa K,Kubo M

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a medium throughput screen of 880 plant and fungal extracts for antiprotozoal activity, a dichloromethane extract of Salvia miltiorrhiza roots was active against both Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Plasmodium falciparum. With HPLC-based activity profiling in combination with on- and off-line spectroscopic metho...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Slusarczyk S,Zimmermann S,Kaiser M,Matkowski A,Hamburger M,Adams M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-soluble and alkaline-soluble polysaccharide fractions, prepared from roots and leaves of PANAX GINSENG C.A. Meyer, were fractionated into strongly acidic, weakly acidic, and neutral polysaccharide fractions by cetyltrimethyammonium bromide, respectively. The roots contained a larger amount of crude polysaccharid...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Gao QP,Kiyohara H,Cyong JC,Yamada H

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For quantitative determination of grayanotoxin I (1) in plant material, a GC/MS method was developed after trimethylsilyl derivatisation of the analytes. Forskolin (5) was used as an internal standard for quantification. ICH-compliant method validation indicated sufficient specificity, precision, quantitation (15 µg/m...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Lechtenberg M,Dierks F,Sendker J,Louis A,Schepker H,Hensel A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the bark of Sclerocarya birrea was isolated (-)-epicatechin-3-galloyl ester of which the structure was elucidated by NMR spectroscopy. The compound has secretagogue activity. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Galvez Peralta J,Zarzuelo A,Busson R,Cobbaert C,de Witte P

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of flavonoids and phenolic acids, which could be transformed from flavonoids by human intestinal microflora, on the growth of Helicobacter pylori (HP) was investigated. Ponciretin, hesperetin, naringenin and diosmetin were active against HP. Among them, ponciretin was the most potent and its MIC ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Bae EA,Han MJ,Kim DH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shoot-tips from several genotypes of the cardenolide-producing perennial shrub Digitalis obscura L. were successfully cryopreserved using the encapsulation-dehydration technique. Precultivation on MS medium containing 0.5 M sucrose, followed by 2.5 h dehydration (final weight 30 %) induced shoot regrowth in 42 % of cr...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Sales E,Nebauer SG,Arrillaga I,Segura J

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel experimental model of free radical-induced emesis for screening anti-emetic compounds from natural sources was established. 2,2'-Azobis(2-amidinopropane) dihydrochloride (AAPH) dissolved in liposome induced emesis in young chickens, and the emesis was prevented by antioxidants including N-(2-mercaptopropionyl)...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Yang Y,Kinoshita K,Koyama K,Takahashi K,Tai T,Nunoura Y,Watanabe K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel therapies are needed to address the public health problem posed by methicillin-resistant STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA). In this study, we determined the effects of combinations of antibiotics and plant polyphenols against 20 clinical isolates of MRSA. The IN VITRO activities of 10 antibiotics and 15 natural polyp...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Lin RD,Chin YP,Hou WC,Lee MH

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenylpropanoid dibenzylbutyrolactone lignan arctigenin, a key component found in Arctium lappa, or burdock, has been reported with a variety of therapeutic effects including anticancer, anti-inflammation, and antivirus effects. Using LC/MS/MS, three novel metabolites of arctigenin, namely, arctigenic acid, arctig...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Gao Q,Zhang Y,Wo S,Zuo Z

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cnidicin (1) and five related coumarins were isolated from the root extract of Angelica koreana (Umbelliferae) as active principles responsible for the inhibitory effect on the degranulation process of cultured mast cells. Cnidicin (1) demonstrated a significant inhibition upon the release of beta-hexosaminidase from ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ryu SY,Kou NY,Choi HS,Ryu H,Kim TS,Kim KM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of four fractions, a hexane fraction, an ethyl acetate fraction, an N-butanol fraction and a water fraction, from a water extract of Herba Visci were investigated to find the fraction, in IN VITRO experiments, with the greatest ability to inhibit the formation of osteoclast-like multinucleated cells from m...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Yin J,Han N,Xu X,Liu Z,Zhang B,Kadota S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00