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Gracillin, a kind of steroidal saponin isolated from the root bark of wild yam Dioscorea nipponica has been reported to exert antitumor activity. In the present study, we investigated the anticancer activity of gracillin against HL60 cells, and evaluated the possible mechanism involved in its
In our continuous studies of anticancer activity of steroidal saponins from the rhizomes of Dioscorea collettii var. hypoglauca (Dioscoreaceae), methyl protoneogracillin (NSC-698793) and gracillin (NSC-698787) were tested for cytotoxicity against human cancer cell lines from leukemia and eight solid
Naturally occurring saponins have been reported to have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. However, the effects of gracillin, a main saponin component of Dioscorea quinqueloba (D. quinqueloba), on atopic dermatitis (AD), have not been previously studied. The aim of this study was to
A simple, reliable and sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method (HPLC-MS/MS) was established for simultaneous analyses of the following 5 steroid saponins in rat plasma after the single dose administration of total steroid saponins extracted from the rhizome
Nine glycosides of spirostan (1-7) and furostan (8 and 9) type steroids including a new compound, 7-oxodioscin (1), were isolated from the rhizomes of Dioscorea nipponica. The structure of 1 was established as (25R)-3beta-O-[(alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 --> 4)-O-[alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 -->
Dioscorea nipponica and the preparations made from it have been used for long to prevent and treat coronary heart disease in traditional Chinese medicine. A group of steroidal saponins present in the plant are believed to be the active ingredients. It has been a challenge to study the individual
High-performance liquid chromatographic method (HPLC) with evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) coupled with microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) as an efficient sample preparation technique has been developed for fingerprint analysis of Dioscorea nipponica. The samples were separated with
The chemical diversity of secondary metabolites in medicinal plant makes it a huge challenge to isolate the bioactive compounds from herbal extracts, so quick recognition of the bioactive ones is of vital importance for improving the efficiency of isolation. In this study, a ligand fishing
A β-glucosidase effectively releasing diosgenin from spirostanosides of Dioscorea zingiberensis C. H. Wright (DZW), named AfG, was purified from a strain of Aspergillus fumigates. The molecular weight of AfG was 113 kDa. Analysis of protein fragments by ESI-Q-TOF indicated that AfG was a
Yam saponins (dioscin, gracillin, protodioscin, and protogracillin) were analyzed with three different C18 columns at incremental column temperatures from 15 to 45°C to investigate the effect of temperature on the retention and resolution of yam saponins. At low temperature, yam saponins showed
The antiviral activity of the phenanthrene derivatives 1-6, of the spyrostane triglycosides dioscin (7) and gracillin (8), of the furostanol tetraglycosides methylprotodioscin (9), its (25S) epimer methylprotoneodioscin (10), and methylprotogracillin 11, have been tested towards two RNA viruses:
From the rhizomes of T. Communis two steroidal glycosides were isolated and identified as dioscin [diosgenin bis-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl (1----2 and 1----4) -beta-D-glucopyranoside] and gracillin [diosgenin-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl (1----2)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1----3)-beta-D-glucopyranoside] by 1H
A new furostanol pentaoligoside and spirostanol tetraoligoside were isolated for the first time from yam tubers (Dioscorea pseudojaponica Yamamoto) from Taiwan, together with four known yam saponins, methyl protodioscin, methyl protogracillin, dioscin, and gracillin. Their structures were
Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is an important edible tuber plant used for medicinal purposes to promote health and longevity in Chinese tradition. Steroidal saponins were reported to be the major physiologically active constituents in yams. In this current work, the structural characteristics of steroidal
In this study, melanogenesis inhibition in B16 cells by eight compounds, namely, tokorogenin, tokoronin, yononin, gracillin, proto-yonogenin, proto-tokoronin, proto-yononin, and proto-gracillin, isolated from Dioscorea tokoro Makino ex Miyabe were evaluated. The results of the cytotoxicity and