abstract：:Flavonoids are metabolized in vivo to monocyclic phenolic acids. We investigated whether 18 phenolic acids of the benzoic, phenylacetic, phenylpropanoic or cinnamic series-known or potential metabolites of flavonoids-inhibit reactive oxygen species (ROS) released by human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). Chemilum...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Limasset B,Ojasoo T,le Doucen C,Doré JC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis (RAPD) is a method to study genetic variability within and between populations and species on the basis of the amplification of anonymous fragments from genomic DNA templates by means of polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We applied RAPD analysis in order to distinguish medi...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Wolf HT,van den Berg T,Czygan FC,Mosandl A,Winckler T,Zündorf I,Dingermann T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot water extract (ALR-0) of rhizomes of Atractylodes lanceo DC. was fractionated into MeOH-soluble fraction (ALR-1), supernatant fraction of EtOH precipitation (ALR-3 + 4), and crude polysaccharide fraction (ALR-5). Among these fractions, only ALR-5 showed potent stimulating activity for proliferation of bone marrow ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Yu KW,Kiyohara H,Matsumoto T,Yang HC,Yamada H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytical method using HPLC with UV detection was developed to investigate the quassinoid content of Eurycoma longifolia Jack (Simaroubaceae) collected from various sources. Eurycomanone (1), longilactone (2), 14,15beta-dihydroxyklaineanone (3), 15beta-acetyl-14-hydroxyklaineanone (4), 6alpha-hydroxyeurycomalacton...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Chan KL,Choo CY,Morita H,Itokawa H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crude globulin fraction was isolated from the tubers of Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit. Tubers of P. ternata are one of the well known Chinese traditional medicines. It is used on account of its anti-emetic effect. 6KDP was separated by means of gel filtration and chromatography on CM-Toyopearl 650 M from the crude...

journal_title：Planta medica

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

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sesquiterpene lactones 1-5 were isolated for the first time from the ethyl acetate of Vernonia fastigiata (Asteraceae). Compounds 3, 4 and 5 are new, compounds 1 and 2 have been found earlier in other Vernonia species but not in V. fastigiata. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Roos G,Prawat H,Walter CU,Klaiber I,Vogler B,Guse JH,Kraus W

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethanolic extract of Ilex aquifolium L. (Aquifoliaceae) concentration-dependently inhibited leukotriene B4 biosynthesis in isolated bovine PMNL with an IC50 value of about 60 micrograms/ml, whereas the effect on epidermal 12(S)-HETE biosynthesis was much less pronounced. The extract also inhibited the non-enzymati...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Müller K,Ziereis K,Paper DH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cordatolide A and B were re-isolated from Calophyllum cordato-oblongum, an endemic species of Sri Lanka, and found to inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase with IC50 values of 12.3 and 19.0 microM, respectively. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Dharmaratne HR,Wanigasekera WM,Mata-Greenwood E,Pezzuto JM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts from Bupleurum fruticescens were examined for oral and topical anti-inflammatory activities. The BuOH extract proved to be active against carrageenan and tetradecanoylphorbol acetate acute edemas and allowed the isolation of three saponins identified by spectroscopic techniques as 3 beta-O-(O-alpha-L-rhamnopy...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Just MJ,Recio MC,Giner RM,Cuéllar MJ,Máñez S,Bilia AR,Ríos JL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TLC autographic assays revealed in the CH(2)Cl(2) extract of Tinospora crispa Miers (Menispermaceae) the presence of three compounds exhibiting antioxidant and radical scavenging properties towards beta-carotene and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical. They were isolated and identified as N-CIS-feruloyltyrami...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Cavin A,Hostettmann K,Dyatmyko W,Potterat O

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medicinal properties of curcumin obtained from Curcuma longa L. cannot be utilised because of poor bioavailability due to its rapid metabolism in the liver and intestinal wall. In this study, the effect of combining piperine, a known inhibitor of hepatic and intestinal glucuronidation, was evaluated on the bioavai...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Shoba G,Joy D,Joseph T,Majeed M,Rajendran R,Srinivas PS

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galphimine-B (G-B) is a bioactive compound isolated from the plant Galphimia glauca Cav. (Malpighiaceae) with central nervous system depressant properties previously described. In the present study, extracellular spiking activity records in either somatosensorial cortex or ventral tegmental area (VTA) neurons, were pe...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Tortoriello J,Ortega A,Herrera-Ruíz M,Trujillo J,Reyes-Vázquez C

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of furanic labdane diterpenes has been investigated in different parts of field-grown plants of MARRUBIUM VULGARE (Lamiaceae) and LEONURUS CARDIACA (Lamiaceae). Furanic labdane diterpenes were produced and accumulated only in the aerial parts. Greatest amounts were measured in leaves and flowers. Up to 4 ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Knöss W,Zapp J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic butylidenephthalide (Bdph), 60 mg/kg per os (p.o.) given 3 h prior to injection of pituitrin (4 U/kg, i.v.), significantly prevented T-wave lowering on lead II electrocardiograph in unanesthetized rats. The effective dose, 60 mg/kg, was about 1/56th of the median lethal dose (LD50, p.o.) in rats. However, Bd...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ko WC,Sheu JR,Tzeng SH,Chen CM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various locations in Switzerland were screened for Petasites hybridus plants with high petasin and low pyrrolizidine alkaloid content. The mean petasin content of the various populations ranged from 7.4 to 15.3 mg/g dry weight in rhizomes and from 3.3 to 11.4 mg/g dry weight in leaves. Mean pyrrolizidine alkaloid cont...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Wildi E,Langer T,Schaffner W,Büter KB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the seasons 1989-1993, Valeriana officinalis plants were investigated for their contents of essential oil, valerenic acid and derivatives, and valepotriates. Harvesting of the subterranean parts was started in August of the year in which the seeds were sown, and continued until the last week of April of the sub...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Bos R,Woerdenbag HJ,van Putten FM,Hendriks H,Scheffer JJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven coumarins were isolated from the aerial parts of Tordylium apulum; their structures were established by spectroscopic means. All compounds were tested in vitro for their cytotoxicity against two cell line systems. The antiproliferative effects for three of them were studied at the level of the cell cycle in asyn...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Kofinas C,Chinou I,Loukis A,Harvala C,Roussakis C,Maillard M,Hostettmann K

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many compounds of plant origin have been identified that inhibit different stages in the replication cycle of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): 1) virus adsorption: chromone alkaloids (schumannificine), isoquinoline alkaloids (michellamines), sulphated polysaccharides and polyphenolics, flavonoids, coumarins (glycoc...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Vlietinck AJ,De Bruyne T,Apers S,Pieters LA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indole alkaloid contents were investigated in leaves of Tabernaemontana pachysiphon (Apocynaceae) trees in the natural habitat, Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya. The contents of the major alkaloids apparicine, tubotaiwine, tubotaiwine- N-oxide, and isovoacangine varied with site, leaf age, leaf growth form, positi...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Höft M,Verpoorte R,Beck E

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water extract of Biota orientalis showed a potent inhibitory effect on platelet activating factor (PAF) binding to rabbit platelets using [3H]PAF as a ligand in our previous screening studies for Korean medicinal antagonists by the activity-guided purification studies. Another active compound, compound 1 (IC50 = 2...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Yang HO,Han BH

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:Micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MECC), using a phosphate buffer pH 7.0 and sodium dodecyl sulfate as the surfactant, was found suitable for the separation of structurally similar flavan-3-ols and related dimeric proanthocyanidins. A total of 20 substances has been tested, 17 of which were successfull...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Kreimeyer J,Petereit F,Nahrstedt A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of our screening program for acyl-CoA : cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) inhibitors from Korean herbal medicines, ACAT inhibitors were isolated from the hairy roots of Panax ginseng (Araliaceae) and identified as panaxynol, panaxydol, panaxydiol, and panaxytriol. These active compounds inhibit rat live...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Kwon BM,Ro SH,Kim MK,Nam JY,Jung HJ,Lee IR,Kim YK,Bok SH

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical investigation of the essential oils from the aerial organs of Bellis perennis L., the common daisy, showed that polyacetylenes were one of the dominant class of compounds. The major constituents, methyl deca-4,6-diynoate and deca-4,6-diynoic acid, and their structural analogues, deca-4,6-diyne, dimethyl o...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Avato P,Vitali C,Mongelli P,Tava A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new acylated secoiridoid glycosides were isolated from the aqueous acetone extract of the whole herb of Gentiana algida. The structures of these new products were established by spectral and chemical methods as 6'-(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)sweroside and 6'-(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)swertiamarin, respectively. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Tan RX,Hu J,Dong LD,Wolfender JL,Hostettmann K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular polysaccharides (ECP) were isolated in yields of up to 4 mg/ml from the culture media of suspension-cultured cells from Digitalis lanata Ehrh. ECP content was increasing continuously over the first ten days of cultivation and then stayed constant until day 20. ECP were fractionated by ion-exchange chroma...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hensel A,Schmidgall J,Kreis W

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crude polysaccharide fraction (DAP-1) was prepared from roots of Dipsacus asperoides by hot water extraction and EtOH precipitation, and tested for anti-complementary activity, mitogenic activity of lymphocytes, and effects on acid phosphatase and phagocytic activities of macrophages. DAP-1 showed not only anti-comp...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Zhang Y,Kiyohara H,Matsumoto T,Yamada H

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical analyses of two Cynara species: C. humilis and C.cornigera revealed various combinations of flavones, flavonols, flavanones, coumarins, phenolic acids, and an aurone. All the identified constituents are reported for the first time from the two species, while the presence of the aurone is reported for the ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Chinou I,Harvala C

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytotoxic compound was purified from the root of Angelica gigas Nakai by normal phase HPLC. As a result of the structure analysis by mass, IR, 1H-NMR, and 13C-NMR spectrometry, the compound was identified as decursinol angelate, a structural isomer of decursin, and characterized originally from Sesei grandivittatum....

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ahn KS,Sim WS,Lee IK,Seu YB,Kim IH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel diterpenoid taxol (paclitaxel) is now well-established as a potent chemotherapeutic agent. Total synthesis of the drug is not commercially feasible and, in the foreseeable future, the supply of taxol and its synthetically useful progenitors must rely on biological methods of production. The first three steps...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hezari M,Croteau R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1)H- and (13)C-NMR spectral data are presented for six p-terphenylquinone derivatives (and for two monosubstituted quinones 1 and 2, used as model compounds) and for 9,10-phenanthraquinone and retenequinone. The chemical shifts were confirmed through correlation spectroscopy and NOE measurements. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Jokela R,Lounasmaa M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies were carried out to evaluate the constituents in the aerial part of Aconitum chiisanense (Ranunculaceae). From the butanol fraction of the methanol extract, kaempferol 3- O-beta-glucopyranoside-7- O-(6-trans-caffeoyl)-beta-glucopyranosyl-(1-->2)-alpha-rhamnopyranoside (I), quercetin 3- O-beta-glucopyranosi...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Jeong HJ,Whang WK,Kim IH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new neolignan glucosides, longiflorosides A, B, C and D, in addition to one known neolignan glucoside, dehydro-diconiferyl alcohol-4-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside were obtained from whole plants of Pedicularis longiflora. The structures of these compounds were determined mainly on spectral evidence. ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Wang CZ,Jia ZJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen radical injury and lipid peroxidation have been suggested as major causes of atherosclerosis, cancer, liver disease, and the aging process. More specifically, oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL) has been recognized as an important process of atherosclerosis. In this study, we determined the ...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ide N,Nelson AB,Lau BH

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we examined the ability of the furofuran lignan yangambin to influence the local and systemic responses induced by antigen or PAF in actively sensitized or normal rats. Given intraperitoneally 1 h before stimulation, yangambin inhibited the pleural neutrophil and eosinophil infiltration evoked by the i.p...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Serra MF,Diaz BL,Barreto EO,Pereira AP,Lima MC,Barbosa-Filho JM,Cordeiro RS,Martins MA,de Silva PM

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During activity-guided fractionations to screen for antineoplastic agents, further studies by means of preparative HPLC led to the isolation of four known furostanol saponins: protoneodioscin, protodioscin, protoneogracillin, protogracillin, along with their corresponding artifacts: methyl protoneodioscin, methyl prot...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hu K,Dong A,Yao X,Kobayashi H,Iwasaki S

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Callus extracts of Crocus sativus exhibited the ability to transform all-trans-crocetin into its related glycosides between pH 7.0 and 7.6 in the presence of uridine-diphospho-glucose. The reactions involved the step-wise addition of a glucose moiety to a free carboxyl function and the 1-->6 addition of a glucose moie...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Dufresne C,Cormier F,Dorion S

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiviral activities of two saponins, soyasaponin I and II, isolated from soybean (Glycine max Merrill) were studied in vitro against herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). Soyasaponin II was more potent than soyasaponin I as shown by reduction of HSV-1 production. Soyasaponin II was also found to inhibit the replic...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Hayashi K,Hayashi H,Hiraoka N,Ikeshiro Y

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simultaneous separation of the enantiomers of kawain, dihydrokawain, methysticin, and dihydromethysticin as well as the achiral dienolides yangonin and demethoxyyangonin was carried out on a ChiraSpher NT column. This HPLC method can be used for the investigation of the enantiomeric purity of plant material and herb...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Häberlein H,Boonen G,Beck MA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxicity of goniothalamin was found to be strong towards both cancerous (HGC-27, MCF-7, PANC-1, HeLa), and non-cancerous (3T3) cell lines, especially in cases of dividing cells. Drug exposure studies indicated that the cytotoxic action of goniothalamin was time- and dose-dependent. At the ultrastructural level...

journal_title：Planta medica

authors： Ali AM,Mackeen MM,Hamid M,Aun QB,Zauyah Y,Azimahtol HL,Kawazu K

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00