Background: Lamiophlomis rotata (Benth.) Kudo (L. rotata), the oral Traditional Tibetan herbal medicine, is adopted for treating knife and gun wounds for a long time.
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March 2023
Introduction: Both repeat resection (RR) and percutaneous ablation (PA) have been used for treating recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (rHCC). Each method has its advantages and disadvantages.
Aim: To compare the safety and effectiveness between RR and PA in patients with rHCC.
Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) have continued to be a treasure trove. The study of chemodiversity and versatility of bioactivities has always been an important content of pharmacophylogeny. There is amazing progress in the discovery and research of natural components with novel structures and significant bioactivities in 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFhas been used for traditional medicines, food, beverages, and dietary antioxidant supplements. The chemical compositions and biological activities of the fruits and seeds have been extensively investigated. However, the biological effects of the leaves are limited, and its anti-neurodegeneration or antiaging activities are little known.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer with a high mortality rate and poor prognosis. miR-637 has been reported to regulate tumor progression and act as a prognosis biomarker of various cancers. Its functional role in NSCLC was investigated in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCephalotaxus is the only genus of Cephalotaxaceae family, and its natural resources are declining due to habitat fragmentation, excessive exploitation and destruction. In many areas of China, folk herbal doctors traditionally use Cephalotaxus plants to treat innominate swollen poison, many of which are cancer. Not only among Han people, but also among minority ethnic groups, Cephalotaxus is used to treat various diseases, e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to investigate the correlation of ultrasonography (US) of synovitis with disease activity and clinical response to etanercept (ETN) in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) patients. Eighty-two JIA patients who underwent ETN treatment for 24 weeks were consecutively enrolled. US evaluations of 28 joints (shoulder, elbow, wrist, metacarpophalangeal, and proximal interphalangeal of hands and knee) at baseline were performed using grey-scale US and power doppler (PD) US, and US synovitis was defined as grey-scale abnormalities or PD abnormalities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present article contains the data on the effects of leaf extracts in which is related to the article " leaf extracts exhibit lifespan extending and oxidative stress resistance properties in via DAF-16/FoxO and SKN-1/Nrf-2 signaling pathways" Chatrawee et al., 2019. This dataset was generated to better understand the antioxidant and anti-aging properties of leaf extracts in .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Glochidion zeylanicum (GZ), a common plant in Thailand and Eastern Asia, is rich in antioxidants. However, the possible anti-aging and oxidative stress resistance properties of GZ leaf extracts (hexane and methanol extracts) have not been reported.
Purpose: We aimed to provide the first science-based evidence of the beneficial effects of GZ on anti-aging and oxidative stress resistance in the Caenorhabditis elegans model.
Background: Caesalpinia mimosoides, a vegetable consumed in Thailand, has been reported to exhibit in vitro antioxidant properties. The in vivo antioxidant and anti-aging activities have not been investigated. The aim of this research was to study the antioxidant activity of C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(AO) contains a number of polyphenolic secondary metabolites with antioxidant activity. The objectives of this study were aimed at investigating the roles of AO leaf extracts in antioxidative stress and longevity, as well as their underlying mechanisms, in the () model. AO extracts mediated the survival rate of nematodes under oxidative stress by attenuating intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) via the DAF-16/FoxO and SKN-1/Nrf-2 signaling pathways.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVasculogenic mimicry (VM) is a special type of vascular channel formed by tumor cells without endothelial cell participation. Migration-inducing gene 7 (MIG-7) plays an important role in regulating VM. In this study, immunohistochemical staining was used to detect MIG-7 in tissue specimens from 141 primary osteosarcoma patients, and the relationship between MIG-7 and VM was examined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Ranunculaceae genus (order Ranunculales), comprising more than 150 species, mostly herbs, has long been used in folk medicine and worldwide ethnomedicine. Various medicinal compounds have been found in plants, especially triterpenoid saponins, some of which have shown anti-cancer activities. Some compounds and extracts display immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antimicrobial activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCynanchum is one of the most important genera in Asclepiadaceae family, which has long been known for its therapeutic effects. In this genus, 16 species are of high medicinal value. The extracts of the root and/or rhizome parts have been applied in traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) for the prevention and treatment of various illnesses for centuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNine compounds were isolated from the spikes of Prunella vulgaris by various kinds of chromatography. Their structures were established on the basis of spectral analysis as polygalacerebroside (1), ursolic acid (2), β-amyrin (3), quercetin (4), quercetin-3-O-β-D-galactoside (5), α-spinasterol (6), stigmasterol (7), β-sitosterol (8), daucosterol (9). Compound 1 was isolated from this genus for the first time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genus Fritillaria is a botanical source for various pharmaceutically active components, which have been commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Increasing interest in Fritillaria medicinal resources has led to additional discoveries of steroidal alkaloids, saponins, terpenoids, glycosides and many other compounds in various Fritillaria species, and to investigations on their chemotaxonomy, molecular phylogeny and pharmacology. In continuation of studies on Fritillaria pharmacophylogeny, the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology and phylogeny of Fritillaria and their relevance to drug efficacy is reviewed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article described an improved brine shrimp larvae lethality microwell test method. A simply designed connecting vessel with alternative photoperiod was used to culture and collect high yield of active Artemia parthenogenetica nauplii for brine shrimp larvae lethality microwell test. Using this method, pure A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new phenolic glycoside was isolated from the spikes of Prunella vulgaris. Its structure was elucidated as gentisic acid 5-O-beta-D-(6'-salicylyl)-glucopyranoside by spectroscopic evidence and chemical analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA marine sulfate-reducing bacterium SRB-22 was isolated by means of the agar shake dilution method and identified as Desulfovibrio desulfuricans by morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics and 16S rDNA analysis. In the bioassay, its extract showed broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity using the paper disc agar diffusion method. This isolate showed a different antimicrobial profile than either ampicillin or nystatin and was found to produce at least eight antimicrobial components by bioautography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the inhibition of three C2 steroidal saponins from Cynanchum auriculatum on the cell growth and cell cycle of human lung cancer A549 cells.
Method: A549 cells were exposed to three C21 steroidal saponins of different concentrations (5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 micromol L(-1)) for 48 hours. After 48 h, MTT assay was used to evaluate the inhibiting effects of three C21 steroidal saponins on the proliferation of the A549 cells.
A method coupling high-performance liquid chromatography with hybrid ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) using an electrospray ionization source was firstly used to characterize ten major pregnane glycosides including one novel compound auriculoside IV from the roots of Cynanchum auriculatum Royle ex Wight. In the MS/MS spectra, fragmentation reactions of the [M+Na]+ were recorded to provide abundant structural information on the aglycone and glycosyl moieties. Experiments using TOFMS allowed us to obtain precise elemental compositions of molecular ions and subsequent product ions with errors less than 6 ppm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new pregnane glycosides, kidjoranin 3- O- alpha-diginopyranosyl-(1-->4)- beta-cymaropyranoside (1) and kidjoranin 3-O-beta-digitoxopyranoside (2), together with one known compound caudatin 3 -O-beta-cymaropyranoside (3), were isolated from the roots of Cynanchum auriculatum. Their structures were established on the basis of NMR analyses. Compounds 1 - 3 were tested for their in vitro inhibitory activity against the growth of human tumor cell lines SMMC-7721, HeLa and MCF7; all of them displayed marked cytotoxic activities against cells SMMC-7721 and HeLa with IC (50) values ranging from 8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the chemical constituents of Prunella vulgaris.
Method: To separate the constituents of P. vulgaris by using various kinds of chromatography and identify their structures on the basis of spectral analysis.