The hypoglycemic effect of Nigella sativa oil is mediated by extrapancreatic actions.

abstract：:Aerial parts of Persicaria lapathifolia S.F. Gray (Polygonaceae) exhibited an inhibitory effect on superoxide production in unopsonized zymosan-stimulated human monocytes. Two known compounds, quercetin 3-O-beta-(2"-galloyl)-glucopyranoside and quercetin 3-O-beta-(2"-galloyl)-rhamnopyranoside, and a new compound, quer...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Kim Y,Jang DS,Park SH,Yun J,Min BK,Min KR,Lee HK

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that saiboku-to, an Oriental herbal remedy composed of a mixture of 10 different herbal extracts, possesses anti-histamine release effect on mast cells in rats. This effect may be due mainly to the extract of the bark of Magnolia obovata (M. obovata), a constituent herb of saiboku-to. In th...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ikarashi Y,Yuzurihara M,Sakakibara I,Nakai Y,Hattori N,Maruyama Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinacea purpurea cell cultures have been established for the production of secondary and possibly bioactive compounds using elicitation techniques. Different elicitors including yeast elicitor, methyl jasmonate, glutathione, and manganese ions were used and compared for their effects on the formation of phenolics in...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Li WW,Barz W

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis, also called TB, is currently a major health hazard due to multidrug-resistant forms of bacilli. Global efforts are underway to eradicate TB using new drugs with new modes of action, higher activity, and fewer side effects in combination with vaccines. For this reason, unexplored new sources and previousl...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Santhosh RS,Suriyanarayanan B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator protein 1 (AP-1) is a transcription factor which plays a critical role in inflammation and carcinogenesis. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of berberine, an isoquinoline alkaloid present in plants of the genera Berberis and Coptis, on the activity of AP-1 using a reporter gene assay ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Fukuda K,Hibiya Y,Mutoh M,Koshiji M,Akao S,Fujiwara H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continued examination of the stem bark of Newbouldia laevis afforded three minor phenylethanoid glycosides, designated as newbouldiosides D - F. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods as β-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethyl 5-O-syringoyl-β-D-apiofuranosyloxy-(1 → 2)-O-[α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 → 3)]-6-O-E-sin...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Kolodziej H

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new naphtho-pyrone glycosides, 9-[(beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----6)-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy]-10- hydroxy-7-methoxy-3-methyl-1H-naphtho[2,3-c]pyran-1 -one (5) and 6-[(alpha-apiofuranosyl-(1----6)-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy]- rubrofusarin (6), together with cassiaside (3) and rubrofusarin-6-beta-gentiobioside (4)...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Wong SM,Wong MM,Seligmann O,Wagner H

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Praziquantel is the drug of choice for the treatment of schistosomiasis. However, several strains of Schistosoma mansoni are resistant to praziquantel, making it necessary to discover new drugs that might be used for its treatment. With this in mind, the properties of a schistosomicidal ethanolic extract of Garcinia b...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Castro AP,de Mattos AC,Pereira NA,Anchieta NF,Silva MS,Dias DF,Silva CA,Barros GV,Souza RL,Dos Santos MH,Marques MJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the fresh rhizomes of Tamus communis five phenanthrenes (1 - 5) were isolated under the guidance of cytotoxic assays in HeLa cells. The compounds were obtained from the highly active CHCl (3) fraction of the MeOH extract by using multistep chromatographic purifications, including VLC, preparative TLC, HPLC and ge...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Réthy B,Kovács A,Zupkó I,Forgo P,Vasas A,Falkay G,Hohmann J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crude methanol extract of the Kenyan shrub Leucas volkensii Gürke (Labiatae) displayed in a radiorespirometric bioassay antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bioassay-guided fractionation of the crude extract led to the identification of (E)-phytol as the principal active component with a ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Rajab MS,Cantrell CL,Franzblau SG,Fischer NH

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geraniol dehydrogenase, the specific enzyme involved in geraniol to citral TRANS (geranial) transformation, activity was monitored in various lemongrass cultivars differing in amounts and relative percentages of citral and geraniol in their essential oils. The enzyme activity had a positive and significant association...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Singh-Sangwan N,Sangwan RS,Luthra R,Thakur RS

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[6]-Gingerol potently inhibits peroxynitrite-induced oxidation and nitration reactions, but its mechanism of action is unclear. In order to discover the mechanism of inhibition, [6]-gingerol was reacted with peroxynitrite and the reaction mixture was analyzed using HPLC. The HPLC chromatogram showed one novel peak, in...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ippoushi K,Ito H,Horie H,Azuma K

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of 28-hydroxyolean-12-enes with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) in acetonitrile at room temperature afforded 12 alpha-bromooleanan-13beta, 28-epoxides in high yield. This reaction resulted in the formation of olean-9 (11), 12-diene-18alpha, 29-epoxides from 29-hydroxy isomers but recovered only starting materials f...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Woo WS,Kang SS,Jew SS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raspberry ketone (RK) is a natural phenolic compound of the red raspberry. The dietary administration of RK to male mice has been reported to prevent high-fat diet-induced elevation in body weight and to increase lipolysis in white adipocytes. To elucidate a possible mechanism for the antiobesity action of RK, its eff...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Park KS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of albifloranine 1, a new alkaloid of ibogane type from the stem bark of Tabernaemontana albiflora (M IQ.) Pull. (Apocynaceae) has been determined. A detailed (1)H NMR study of albifloranine 1, coronaridine 2 and heyneanine 3 is presented. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Kan C,Husson HP,Kan SK,Lounasmaa M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the inhibition of Cu(2+)-induced LDL oxidation as marker, the major antioxidants in the fruits of Forsythia suspensa and the stems of Magnolia coco were identified. Of these bioactive tetrahydrofurofuran lignans, pinoresinol, phillygenin, and syringaresinol were more potent than probucol. Sesamin and fargesin...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Chen CC,Chen HY,Shiao MS,Lin YL,Kuo YH,Ou JC

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phytochemical study of the whole plant of TEPHROSIA HAMILTONII afforded a new flavonoid, characterised as 5, 7-dimethoxy-8-(2, 3-epoxy-3-methylbutyl)-flavanone, along with other known compounds. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Falak AH,Shoeb A

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight new lupane triterpenes, including 7beta-cis-coumaroylbetulinic acid (1), 7beta-trans-coumaroylbetulinic acid (2), 7beta-cis-coumaroyl-3-epi-betulinic acid (3), 7beta-trans-coumaroyl-3-epi-betulinic acid (4), 7beta-cis-coumaroylbetulonic acid (5), 7beta-trans-coumaroylbetulonic acid (6), 7beta-hydroxybetulinaldeh...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Du YC,Lin AS,Wu CC,Hsieh PW,Chen YH,Chen IH,Chen SL,Yen HF,Lübken T,Chang FR,Wu YC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VERATRUM CALIFORNICUM (Liliaceae) is an important monocotyledonous medicinal plant which is the only source of the anticancer compound cyclopamine. An IN VITRO culture system for somatic embryogenesis and green plant regeneration of VERATRUM CALIFORNICUM was developed. Embryogenic calli were induced from mature embryo...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ma R,Ritala A,Oksman-Caldentey KM,Rischer H

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:The structure of swertiaside, a new iridoid glucoside isolated from SWERTIA JAPONICA, was elucidated to be 7-epi-( M-hydroxybenzoyl)-loganicacid. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ikeshiro Y,Tomita Y

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infusions of Citrullus colocynthis Schrad. (Cucurbitaceae) fruits are traditionally used as antidiabetic medication in Mediterranean countries, but to our knowledge no studies have been undertaken so far to determine the possible mechanisms involved in the antidiabetic properties of the fruit. The present study was de...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Nmila R,Gross R,Rchid H,Roye M,Manteghetti M,Petit P,Tijane M,Ribes G,Sauvaire Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new compounds, 15-acetoxy-12-hydroxy-16-methyl-labda-8(17),13E-diene (1), ent-labda-8(17),13-dien-15,16-olid-19-oic acid methyl ester (2), and 12-hydroxy-labda-8(17),13-dien-15,16-olide (3), together with two known compounds, 19-acetoxy-ent-labda-8(17),13-dien-15,16-olide (4), and 16-acetoxy-12,15-epoxy-15beta-h...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Vardamides JC,Sielinou VT,Ndemangou B,Nkengfack AE,Fomum ZT,Poumale HM,Laatsch H

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs were sensitized with trinitrophenylated liver macromolecular protein fraction (TNP-LP1) prepared by using sodium trinitrobenzenesulfonate of strong immunogenicity as the hapten and LP1 as the carrier protein. The administration of trinitrophenylated hepatocytes and lipopolysaccharide to these TNP-LP1-sensi...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Mizoguchi Y,Shin T,Kobayashi K,Morisawa S

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new tetrahydrofuran lignan, named henricine ( 1), was isolated from the stems of SCHISANDRA HENRYI. High resolution COSY spectrum was used in the structural elucidation. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Lian-Niang L,Hong X

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action, leakage of cytochrome c from mitochondria into cytosol, for the antineoplastic compound glyfoline was examined. Additionally, our current studies revealed that glyfoline induced apoptotic changes and arrested cell cycle procession at the G2/M phase in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). A reverse ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Su TL,Huang HM,Wang CK,Wu HC,Lin CT

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of gene action for biomass yield and tropane alkaloid content was ascertained through diallel analysis in Egyptian henbane, HYOSCYAMUS MUTICUS L. Dominance variation was preponderant over additive genetic variance, dominance being in the overdominance range for both traits. On an overall basis, recessive al...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Misra HO,Sharma JR,Lal RK

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten new polyhydroxyolean-12-ene pentacyclic triterpenoidal saponins, named rogchaponins 1-10, were isolated from the methanolic extract of the roots of Camellia sinensis by a series of chromatographic methods (silica gel flash column and C18 MPLC followed by C18 HPLC). Their structures were established by 1D and 2D-NM...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Varughese T,Manir MM,Rahaman M,Kim JK,Lee BG,Moon SS

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a sensitive method for the estimation of quinine (Qn), cinchonine (Cn), and cinchonidine (Cnd) and a new method based on fluorescence enhancement and detection and quantification of quinidine (Qnd) from Cinchona stem bark and its formulations, using HPTLC. Standard solutions of Qn, Qnd, Cn, and Cnd were appl...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ravishankara MN,Shrivastava N,Padh H,Rajani M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In natural product chemistry, it is often crucial to determine sugar composition as well as the absolute configuration of each monosaccharide in glycosides. An ultra-performance liquid chromatography method using both photodiode array (PDA) and mass spectrometry detectors (UPLC-UV/MS) was developed for qualitative ana...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Wang YH,Avula B,Fu X,Wang M,Khan IA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00