Integrated serum pharmacochemistry and network pharmacology analyses reveal the bioactive metabolites and potential functional mechanism of ground cherry (Physalis pruinosa L.) in treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in rats.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Different Physalis plants have been widely employed in traditional medicine for management of diabetes mellitus. Previous studies with respect to the in vivo antidiabetic activity of Physalis plants illustrated that they improved glucose and lipid metabolism in streptozotocin (STZ) -induced diabetic rats yet the mechanism of action of bioactive constituents of the different organs of Physalis plants on diabetes remains obscure.

Aim Of Study: Our objective is to study the effects of the different organs of ground cherry (P.

Seasonal dynamics of the phenolic constituents of the cones and leaves of oriental ( L.) reveal their anti-inflammatory biomarkers.

In this study, the seasonal dynamics of the flavonoids in the cones and leaves of oriental ( L. Franco) as well as the anti-inflammatory activity of their extracts were investigated. The important chemical markers of the studied extracts were determined using untargeted HPTLC profiling, which was further utilized to assess the seasonality effect on the composition of these metabolites over three seasonal cycles.

Comparative metabolomics reveal intraspecies variability in bioactive compounds of different cultivars of pomegranate fruit (Punica granatum L.) and their waste by-products.

Background: The different parts of pomegranate fruit are considered a powerful mixture of bioactive compounds yet the peels and pulps of the fruits are usually discarded and considered as industrial waste. In this work, ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (UPLC-QqQ-MS) was utilized for metabolomics analysis of different parts (peel, pulp, seed and juice) of pomegranate fruit cultivars to verify possible variations among the fruits and their waste products as potential sources of functional constituents.

Results: Orthogonal projection to latent structure-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) coefficient-plot showed enrichment of phenolic compounds such as punicalagin and ellagic acid derivatives in pulp samples while seeds class was enriched in phlorizin, catechin and quercetin, juice class showed abundance of naringenin and pelargonidin-3-pentoside while peels were enriched in anthocyanins and flavonoids including cyanidin diglycoside, quercetin and luteolin glycosides.

Chemical profiling and identification of anti-inflammatory biomarkers of oriental Thuja ( using UPLC/MS/MS and network pharmacology-based analyses.

L. Franco has many folk uses as it is mainly used to treat inflammatory ailments. UPLC-MS/MS was used for the chemical profiling of leaves.

Efficacy-directed discrimination of the essential oils of three Juniperus species based on their in-vitro antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activities.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Juniperus plants are considered important sources of cedar-wood oil which is used widely in folk medicine as antiseptic and in treatment of inflammatory disorders such as, rheumatoid arthritis but there is not enough scientific evidence to support the claimed uses and there is no specification of a certain Juniperus species as the most active.

Aim Of The Study: The aim of this study is volatiles profiling of three Juniperus species; J. communis, J.

Peroxidase inhibitory and antioxidant constituents from L. species guided by HPTLC-bioautography and molecular docking studies.

The application of a newly developed HPTLC-bioautography assay for detecting peroxidase enzyme inhibitors in plant extracts in addition to bioautography methods for detecting antioxidant compounds resulted in the isolation of a new biflavonoid 3'-methoxy sahranflavone along with two known biflavonoids and three flavonoids from the leaves and cones of and . The structures of all compounds were elucidated by means of 1 D and 2 D NMR and MALDI-TOF MS technique in addition to comparison to literature data. Quantitative estimation of antiperoxidase and antioxidative capacity based on DPPH free radical scavenging activity and β-carotene bleaching of extracts, active fraction and constituents was achieved by applying validated high resolution image analyses techniques.

Fingerprint profile and efficacy-associated markers of Nigella sativa oil for geographical origin determination using targeted and untargeted HPTLC-multivariate analysis.

Efficacy directed-fingerprint analysis of high-performance thin layer chromatography is proposed to set up fingerprint activity relationship modeling for precise discrimination of chemical and effective consistency of Nigella sativa oils from different geographical origins. A whole of 27 samples of N. sativa oils from three geographical area (Egypt, Ethiopia and Syria) were collected and their antimicrobial, cytotoxic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities were measured.