acetyldigitoxin/digitalis lanata

Suspension cultures from several cell lines of Digitalis lanata, as well as cultures from 6 other plant species were checked for their ability to form purpurea-glycoside A from digitoxin. An in-vitro assay for the UDP-glucose:digitoxin 16'-O-glucosyltransferase (DGT, EC 2.4.1.-) has been established

Adicin, Soviet alpha-acetyldigitoxin, obtained from Digitalis lanata Ehrh., c. Scrophulariaceae after isolation from it of celanid is a highly effective cardiotonic of the digitalis type of action. It exerts a favourable ino- and tonotropic and an adverse chronotropic action on the heart. This

DIGITALIS LANATA plants were grown on water culture in a controlled environment and in the young, growing leaves free sterols (0.335 micromol/g FW), triacylglycerols (0.97 micromol/g FW) and cardenolides (1.82 micromol/g FW) were the major apolar and polar lipids. The cardenolide-containing fraction