plant species have been used for centuries in traditional medicine and are reported to be an important source of natural products. However, despite the large number of species within the genus, only a few have been investigated chemotaxonomically. A Molecular Network approach was used to highlight the different chemical classes characterizing the leaves of five species: , , and .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSponges are prolific producers of specialized metabolites with unique structural scaffolds. Their chemical diversity has always inspired natural product chemists working in drug discovery. As part of their metabolic filter-feeding activities, sponges are known to release molecules, possibly including their specialized metabolites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe biological screening of 44 marine sponge extracts for the research of bioactive molecules, with potential application in the treatment of age-related diseases (cancer and Alzheimer's disease) and skin aging, resulted in the selection of extract for chemical study. As no reports of secondary metabolites of were found in the literature, we undertook this research to further extend current knowledge of chemistry. The investigation of this species led to the discovery of four new compounds: two butenolides sinularone J () and sinularone K (), one phospholipid 1--octadecyl-2-pentanoyl--glycero-3-phosphocholine () and one lysophospholipid 1--(3-methoxy-tetradecanoyl)--glycero-3-phosphocholine () alongside with known lysophospholipids ( and ), alkylglycerols (-), epidioxysterols ( and ) and diketopiperazines ( and ).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Flowers of Inula montana L. (Asteraceae), commonly known as "Arnica de Provence", are used in the traditional medicine of Provence in France with the same indication as Arnica montana, for the relief of bruises, as an anti-inflammatory agent.
Aims Of The Study: The aim of our study is to evaluate its anti-inflammatory properties and to justify its traditional uses.
A new aporphine glycoside (1), named 'angkorwatine', and eight known alkaloids: oblongine (2), stepharine (3), asimilobine-β-d-glucopyranoside (4), isocorydine (5), tetrahydropalmatine (THP) (6), jatrorrhizine (7), palmatine (PAL) (8), and roemerine (ROE) (9) were simultaneously isolated from the tuber of Stephania cambodica. The development and validation of UHPLC-DAD method was carried out for the quantification of marker compounds (PAL, ROE, THP) of S. cambodica.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFourteen compounds belonging to different chemical classes were characterized in the roots and fruits extracts from Berberis libanotica, using the same HPLC-DAD-MS method. Thirteen were reported, for the first time, from the fruits whereas the roots contained mostly alkaloids of which 3 out of 5 are reported for the first time. Their structures were established on the basis of MS data as gallic acid (1), chlorogenic acid (2), delphinidin (3), oxyacanthine (4), rutin (5), hyperoside (6), berbamine (7), isoquercitrin (8), quercitrin (9), jatrorrhizine (10), palmatine (11), berberine (12), quercetin (13) and luteolin (14).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 1-nitropyrene (1-NPy) is one of the most abundant nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons particularly in diesel exhausts. It is a mutagenic and carcinogenic pollutant very widespread in the environment. So the discovery of antimutagenic agents is essential.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Withania species are a rich source of interesting phytochemical substances (withanolides) which have shown several biological properties.
Objective: To investigate the cytotoxic potential of Withania frutescens (L.) Pauquy (Solanaceae) leaf extracts and isolated active compounds against cultured tumor cell lines.
The extracts of five Cambodian medicinal plants (Aganosma marginata, Dracaena cambodiana, Harrisonia perforata, Hymenodictyon excelsum and Vernonia cinerea) were evaluated in vitro for their cytotoxic activity against HT29 colon adenocarcinoma cells and HepG2 hepatoma cells, using the MTT assay. Among these five plants, Vernonia cinerea displayed potent cytotoxicity. One main sesquiterpene lactone, 8alpha-tigloyloxy-hirsutinolide-13-O-acetate was isolated from the whole plant of V.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Stephania rotunda Lour. (Menispermaceae) is a creeper growing in many countries of Asia and commonly found in the mountainous areas of Cambodia. As a folk medicine, it has been mainly used for the treatment of fever and malaria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStephania rotunda (Menispermaceae), a creeper commonly found in the mountainous areas of Cambodia, has been mainly used for the treatment of fever and malaria. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the chemical composition and antiplasmodial activity of different samples of S. rotunda and compare their antiplasmodial activity with their alkaloid content.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA reliable HPLC method coupled with DAD detection was developed and validated for determination of majdine in Vinca herbacea. The chromatographic separation was carried out on a Symmetry C18 column (250 mm x 4.6 mm, 5 microm, Waters) with an isocratic solvent system of 25 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH = 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA reliable high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method coupled with photodiode array detection has been developed and validated for the determination of three major alkaloids: cepharanthine, tetrahydropalmatine and xylopinine in Stephania rotunda Lour. (Menispermaceae) collected in Cambodia. The chromatographic separation was carried out on a Symmetry C8 column (250 mm x 4.
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