pinellia ternata/breast neoplasms

Traditional Chinese medicine, based on theories developed and practiced for >2,000 years, is one of the most common complementary and alternative types of medicine currently used in the treatment of patients with breast cancer. Ruanjian Sanjie (RJSJ) decoction, is composed of four herbs, including

Plant lectins are proteins that possess at least one non-catalytic domain, which could reversibly bind to specific monosaccharides or oligosaccharides. The important roles played by plant lectins in immune regulation, signaling pathways, and plant defense could be attributed to their specific

Six new seco-cytochalasins A-F (1-6), two new asperlactones G-H (7-8) along with three known cytochalasins (9-11) were isolated from the solid cultures of an endophytic fungus Aspergillus sp. Their structures were elucidated by comprehensive spectral analysis, and their absolute configurations were

Background: The tuber of Pinellia ternata has been used for a thousand years in China. P. ternata possessed the activities of anti-emetic, sedative-hypnotic, anti-cancer, anti-asthmatic, anti-tussive, and anti-inflammatory. It is the