Chemical Profiles and Cytotoxic Activities of Essential Oils from Six Species of Baccharis Subgenus Coridifoliae (Asteraceae).

Several Baccharis species are popularly known in traditional medicine as "carquejas", "vassouras", "ervas-santas" and "mio-mios", and are used as anti-inflammatories, digestives, and diuretics. This study aimed to investigate the chemical compositions and cytotoxic activities of essential oils (EOs) of six Baccharis species belonging to subgenus Coridifoliae, namely B. albilanosa, B.

Pharmacological Evaluation of Secondary Metabolites and Their Simultaneous Determination in the Arabian Medicinal Plant Using HPTLC Validated Method.

is an important genus of the Loranthaceae family, and it is a semiparasitic plant grown in Saudi Arabia, traditionally used as a cure for diabetes and cancer in human and for increasing lactation in cattle. A flavonoid quercetin (), (-)-catechin (), and a flavane gallate 2S,3R-3,3',4',5,7-pentahydroxyflavane-5-O-gallate () were isolated from the methanol extract of the aerial parts of (PCME). The PCME and the isolated compounds were subjected to pharmacological assays to estimate peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors PPAR and PPAR agonistic, anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic, and antimicrobial activities.

Biological Evaluation of Different Extracts of Aerial Parts of and Standardization of Active Extracts Using 8-Epi-7-Deoxyloganic Acid and Ursolic Acid by Validated HPTLC Method.

(Lamiaceae) is a well-known medicinal plant that grows in Saudi Arabia. This plant is used in Saudi and Yemeni folk medicine as an anti-inflammatory, carminative, and antirheumatic agent. In order to prove its use in folk medicine, four different extracts from the aerial parts of the plant: petroleum ether, chloroform, ethyl acetate, and -butanol extracts were subjected to biological assays to screen PPAR and PPAR agnostic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and cytotoxic activities.

New ellagic acid derivative from the fruits of heat-tolerant plant Conocarpus lancifolius Engl. and their anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic, PPAR agonistic activities.

Conocarpus lancifolius (Combretaceae), is distributed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is a heat-tolerant Saudi medicinal plant, demonstrates prominent antidiabetic potential and the fruit extract fruits showed cytotoxicity against MRC-5 cancer cell line, as well as prominent antiprotozoal and antibacterial activities. The objective of this study is to isolate the compounds and evaluate the anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic, PPAR agonistic and antioxidant activities of extracts and pure constituents from C.

Bioactivity and chemical characterization of Forssk. growing in Saudi Arabia.

is an important genus of the Euphorbiaceae family. The genus is represented by five species in Saudi Arabia. Forssk.

Microbial metabolism. Part 14. Isolation and bioactivity evaluation of microbial metabolites of resveratrol.

The fungi, Beauveria bassiana (ATCC 13144) and Penicillium chrysogenium (ATCC 9480) transformed resveratrol to resveratrol-3-O-sulphate. The former, in addition, gave 5-methoxyresveratrol-3-O-β-glucoside with the latter yielding 5-methoxyresveratrol-3-O-sulphate. The structures were established by spectroscopic methods.

Transport of harman alkaloids across Caco-2 cell monolayers.

This study examined the intestinal transport of five harman alkaloids using the Caco-2 cell monolayer as a model of the human intestinal mucosa. Transport parameters, permeability coefficients and percent transports, were calculated and compared under identical conditions with atenolol. Permeability coefficients were also compared with the reported values for model compounds like mannitol, propranolol and glucose.

Identification and biological activity of microbial metabolites of xanthohumol.

Microbial transformation of xanthohumol using the culture broth of Cunninghamella echinulata NRRL 3655 afforded (2S)-8-[4"-hydroxy-3"-methyl-(2"-Z)-butenyl]-4',7-dihydroxy-5-methoxyflavanone (5) and (2S)-8-[5"-hydroxy-3"-methyl-(2"-E)-butenyl]-4',7-dihydroxy-5-methoxyflavanone (6). Xanthohumol (1) and flavanone 6 as well as (E)-2"-(2"'-hydroxyisopropyl)-dihydrofurano[2",3":4',3']-2',4-dihydroxy-6'-methoxychalcone (2), (2S)-2"-(2"'-hydroxyisopropyl)-dihydrofurano[2",3":7,8]-4'-hydroxy-5-methoxyflavanone (3) obtained with Pichia membranifaciens showed antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum.