Phytochemicals and biological activities of Ligularia species

Biological activities and phytochemicals of Swietenia macrophylla King.

Swietenia macrophylla King (Meliaceae) is an endangered and medicinally important plant indigenous to tropical and subtropical regions of the World. S. macrophylla has been widely used in folk medicine to treat various diseases. The review reveals that limonoids and its derivatives are the major constituents of S. macrophylla. There are several data in the literature indicating a great variety ...

Phytochemicals From Genus Diospyros (L.) and their Biological Activities

Phytochemicals from Mangifera pajang Kosterm and their biological activities

BACKGROUND Mangifera pajang Kosterm is a plant species from the mango family (Anacardiaceae). The fruits are edible and have been reported to have high antioxidant content. However, the detailed phytochemical studies of the plant have not been reported previously. This study investigates the phytochemicals and biological activities of different parts of Mangifera pajang. METHODS The plant sam...

chemical constituents and biological activities of two iranian cystoseira species

the marine environment represents approximately half of the global biodiversity and could provide unlimited biological resources for the production of therapeutic drugs. marine seaweeds comprise few thousands of species representing a considerable part of the littoral biomass. extracts of the cystoseira indica and cystoseira merica were subjected to phytochemical and cytotoxicity evaluation. th...

Phytochemicals from the Bark of Garcinia hombroniana and Their Biological Activities

The dichloromethane and ethyl acetate extracts from the bark of Garcinia hombroniana yielded lupeol (1), lupeol acetate (2), 3β-acetoxylup-12,20(29)-diene (3), β-sitosterol (4), 22-dehydroclerosterol (5), mangiferolic acid (6), ursolic acid (7), betulin (8), betulinic acid (9), 1,3,6-trihydroxy-7-methoxy-2,8-(3-methyl2-butenyl)xanthone (10), leucodin (11), p-hydroxycinnamate (12), p-hydroxybenz...