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Alkaloids have protective functions for plants and can play an important role in living organisms. Alkaloids may have a wide range of pharmacological activities. Many of them have cytotoxic activity. Nowadays, cancer has become a serious public health problem. Searching for effective drugs with
The occurrence of two butenolides, menisdaurilide and aquilegiolide, in commercial specimens of Dicentra spectabilis is reported for the first time; a rapid and direct isolation protocol is described. The ability of these lactones to induce apoptosis in human tumour cell lines at 10 microM
Cancer is one of the most occurring diseases in developed and developing countries. Plant-based compounds are still researched for their anticancer activity and for their quantity in plants. Therefore, the modern chromatographic methods are applied to quantify them in plants, for example, UPLC-MS/MS