Anti-inflammatory isoflavonoids from the stems of Derris scandens.

abstract：:In this study, the significant hepatoprotective effect of dioscin against CCl₄-induced acute liver damage in mice was first discovered, and the effect produced by dioscin at the dose of 100 mg/kg was equal to the action produced by silymarin at the dose of 200 mg/kg. Then, 1-dimension gel electrophoresis was used to s...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Lu B,Yin L,Xu L,Peng J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of mainly marine derived natural products were tested for their activities against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. avium. Of the thirty-nine compounds tested fifteen demonstrated minimum inhibition concentrations (MICs) of 32 micrograms/ml or less, and eleven had MICs of 16 micrograms/ml or less. The most a...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： König GM,Wright AD,Franzblau SG

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dichloromethane-soluble fraction of the methanol extract of the stem bark of Millettia versicolor Welw. (Leguminosae) has been shown to possess anti-inflammatory activity. The chromatographic fractionation and subsequent analysis of the spectroscopic data of this extract led to the isolation and identification of ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Fotsing MT,Yankep E,Njamen D,Fomum ZT,Nyasse B,Bodo B,Recio MC,Giner RM,Ríos JL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methanol extract of the leaves of Syzygium polyanthum (Wight) Walp. afforded four new acylbenzene derivatives (1-4) together with seven known compounds (5-11). The structures of 1-11 were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic methods and comparison with the literature data. The new compounds 1-3 and a known compound...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Saifudin A,Tanaka K,Kadota S,Tezuka Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sigmoidin A (SGN) is a prenylated flavanone derivative of eriodictyol (ERD) with reported moderate antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activity. Since ERD and other structurally similar antioxidant phenolic compounds have been shown to induce prooxidative macromolecular damage and cytotoxicity in cancer c...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Habtemariam S,Dagne E

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrogoniothalamin is a styrylpyrone isolated from the leaves of Aniba panurensis. The present work aimed at investigating the vasorelaxant activity of dihydrogoniothalamin and its underlying mechanism of action in the rat aorta. Dihydrogoniothalamin (0.01-100 µM) induced a concentration-dependent vasodilatation of ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Rezende BA,Silva GC,Corradi RG,Teles MM,Barbosa-Filho JM,Lemos VS,Cortes SF

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoliquiritigenin (4,2',4'-trihydroxychalcone, ISL) is a natural pigment with a simple chalcone structure. In this study, we report the ISL-induced inhibition on the growth of human hepatoma cells (Hep G2) for the first time. The cell growth inhibition achieved by ISL treatment resulted in programmed cell death in a c...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hsu YL,Kuo PL,Lin LT,Lin CC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some enzymes of the terminal steps of phenylalanine and tyrosine biosyntheses were investigated in various alkaloid-forming ergot strains. All strains studied utilize both arogenate and phenylpyruvate as an intermediate in L-phenylalanine synthesis. L-Tyrosine is preferentially or exclusively synthesized via the aroge...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Schmauder HP,Gröger D

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains the leading cause of mortality in the world. Early intervention using salvianolic acids (SA) can substantially improve clinical outcomes. However, in spite of the great achievements that have been made in elucidating the protective effects of SA on AMI, the effects of SA on th...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Jiang B,Wu W,Li M,Xu L,Sun K,Yang M,Guan S,Liu X,Guo DA

更新日期：2009-10-01 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 cell-based method for screening drug candidates from herbal extracts that have possible anti-type II diabetic effects was established. The differentiation of preadipocytes into adipocytes was used as a sensitive primary indicator of a drug's potential effect on type II diabetes. We established a quantitative method ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Xu ME,Xiao SZ,Sun YH,Ou-yang Y,Guan C,Zheng XX

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to examine the potential beneficial effect of cordycepin on the decline of testicular function induced with age. A total of 30 male Sprague-Dawley rats (twenty-four 12-month-olds and six 2-month-olds) were divided into five groups. The young control (YC) and middle-aged control (MC) groups r...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Sohn SH,Lee SC,Hwang SY,Kim SW,Kim IW,Ye MB,Kim SK

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new compounds, namely, (+)-dihydrodehydrodiconiferyl alcohol 4- O- beta-(6''- O-galloyl)-glucopyranoside ( 1), 4,4'- O-dimethylellagic acid 3-(2''- O-acetyl)- alpha-rhamnopyranoside ( 2), and ethyl O- beta-(6'-galloyl)-glucopyranoside ( 3), together with eleven known ones, were isolated from the stem bark of Tre...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Kang QJ,Yang XW,Wu SH,Ma YL,Li L,Shen YM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro propagation protocol for rapidly producing Hydrastis canadensis L., Goldenseal, plantlets from disk tissue of young leaves was developed. Leaf explants were inoculated on MS medium supplemented with various concentrations of NAA and TDZ for production of callus. Two-month-old calli were sub-cultured on MS ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Bedir E,Lata H,Schaneberg B,Khan IA,Moraes RM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new depsidones, parmosidones F - G (1 - 2), and 8'-O-methylsalazinic acid (3), and 3 new diphenylethers, parmetherines A - C (4 - 6), together with 2 known congeners were isolated from the whole thalli of Parmotrema dilatatum, a foliose chlorolichen. Their structures were unambiguously determined by extensive sp...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Devi AP,Duong TH,Ferron S,Beniddir MA,Dinh MH,Nguyen VK,Pham NK,Mac DH,Boustie J,Chavasiri W,Pogam PL

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turmeric has been extensively utilized in Indian and Chinese medicine for its immune-modulatory properties. Dendritic cells (DCs) are antigen-presenting cells specialized to initiate and regulate immunity. The ability of DCs to initiate immunity is linked to their activation status. The effects of turmeric on human DC...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Krasovsky J,Chang DH,Deng G,Yeung S,Lee M,Leung PC,Cunningham-Rundles S,Cassileth B,Dhodapkar MV

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six pentacyclic triterpenic acid methyl esters have been isolated from the methylated ethyl acetate extract of the trunk wood of MUSANGA CECROPIOIDES, as well as a triterpene saponin of the same group. One of them, cecropic acid methyl ester, is new. The structures of these compounds have been established from interpr...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Lontsi D,Sondengam BL,Ayafor JF,Tsoupras MG,Tabacchi R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic profile of arctiin, the major active lignan in fruits of Arctium lappa L., was investigated. Its main meta"bolite arctigenin was identified by an LC-MS method, and an HPLC-UV technique was developed for the simultaneous quantification of the metabolite and arctiin in plasma and organs. Chromatograp...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： He F,Dou DQ,Sun Y,Zhu L,Xiao HB,Kang TG

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different oil-samples of Melissa officinalis L. were analysed by capillary GC/MS, using fused silica columns and E.I.-Mass-spectrometry. Comparing the observed mass-spectra with those of a spectral collection, 70 compounds of the oil were identified. Geranial, neral, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, citronellal, geranyl-aceta...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Tittel G,Wagner H,Bos R

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valeriana officinalis L. is a popular herbal treatment for mild sleep disorders. Clinical and non-clinical studies found contradictory results for valerian extracts and single constituents regarding the influence on sleep parameters. It was the aim of this study to investigate the sedative effects of a valerian root e...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Chow NK,Fretz M,Hamburger M,Butterweck V

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of phytoestrogens on the female breast are discussed controversially. On the one hand, epidemiological and experimental data provide evidence that dietary phytoestrogens may prevent the development of breast cancer. On the other hand, in breast cancer cell lines and tumour models isoflavone phytoestrogens ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hertrampf T,Schmidt S,Seibel J,Laudenbach-Leschowsky U,Degen GH,Diel P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ganoderan B increased the plasma insulin level in normal and glucose-loaded mice but elicited no effect on insulin binding to isolated adipocytes. Administration of ganoderan B elicited significant increases of the activities of hepatic glucokinase, phosphofructokinase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, decreased ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hikino H,Ishiyama M,Suzuki Y,Konno C

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arctigenin is a phenylpropanoid dibenzylbutyrolactone lignan compound possessing antitumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-influenza, antioxidant, antibacterial, and hypoglycaemic activities. Our previous study demonstrated that arctigenin exerts neuroprotective effects both in vitro and in vivo in a Parkinson's disease mode...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Qi Y,Dou DQ,Jiang H,Zhang BB,Qin WY,Kang K,Zhang N,Jia D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new cytotoxic roridin-type trichothecene macrolide named roritoxin E(1) was characterized from the solid culture of Myrothecium roridum IFB-E091 (residing originally inside Artemisia annua root), together with the known compounds lumichrome (2), (22 E,24 S)-cerevisterol (3), and (22 E,24 R)-6 beta-methoxy-ergosta-7,...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Shen L,Wang JS,Shen HJ,Song YC,Tan RX

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbascoside is a phenylethanoid glycoside widely distributed in nature, especially among the order Lamiales, occurring in numerous plants that are constituents of folk medicine preparations. This natural compound, previously isolated by our group from the ethyl acetate extract of Lantana trifolia using the gradient a...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Leitão GG,Pinto SC,de Oliveira DR,Timoteo P,Guimarães MG,Cordova WH,Leitão SG

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:The composition of the phthalide mixture of the essential oil from roots of Levisticum officinale Koch was investigated. The phthalide mixture was analyzed by combining separation methods - GLC, LSC and TLC - and subsequently using spectroscopic methods - IR, MS and NMR. E- and Z-butylidenephthalide, E- and Z-ligustil...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Gijbels MJ,Scheffer JJ,Baerheim Svendsen A

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that 11 ent-kauranes isolated from the stems of Annona squamosa exhibited immunomodulating effects in leukocytes. In this study, a cellular model using isolated human neutrophils, which are important in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, chronic obstructive ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Yeh SH,Chang FR,Wu YC,Yang YL,Zhuo SK,Hwang TL

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capillary GC, GC-MS, IR, GC-IR, (1)H- and (13)C-NMR studies of the essential oil from the leaves and cones of ELSHOLTZIA POLYSTACHYA collected from two different locations in India revealed that one oil contained 1,8-cineol (37.3%), the other one perillene (61.2%) as the main constituent. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Mathela CS,Melkani AB,Bisht JC,Pant AK,Bestmann HJ,Erler J,Kobold U,Rauscher J,Vostrowsky O

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new sauchinone analogues, sauchinones B-D (1-3), together with sauchinone (4), were isolated from the aerial part of Saururus chinensis. Structures of the new compounds were determined by extensive spectroscopic data as well as X-ray analysis. Compounds 3 and 4 inhibited nitric oxide production in lipopolysaccha...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Gao X,He J,Wu XD,Peng LY,Dong LB,Deng X,Li Y,Cheng X,Zhao QS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00