The efficacy of antineoplastic compounds can depend heavily on the genetic background of the cells exposed to the drugs. This becomes evident by the fact that HT-29 human colon cancer cells but not primary murine nontransformed colonocytes are efficiently submitted to apoptosis by the flavonoid flavone. By determining caspase-3 activation, plasma membrane disintegration, and nuclear fragmentati...

CYP1A1 and CYP1B1 are two extrahepatic enzymes that have been implicated in carcinogenesis and cancer progression. Selective inhibition of CYP1A1 and CYP1B1 by dietary constituents, notably the class of flavonoids, is a widely accepted paradigm that supports the concept of dietary chemoprevention. In parallel, recent studies have documented the ability of CYP1 enzymes to selectively metabolize ...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Leptopyrum fumarioides has been used in the traditional medicine of Mongolia for the treatment of various diseases, including drug intoxications. However, since there is only sparse information about its chemistry, active components, and pharmacological and toxicological effects, the major aim of the present study employing mouse lymphoma cells was to evaluate the...

Gastrointestinal tumours are among the most common malignancies in Western society, the majority of which are associated with dietary and lifestyle factors. Many dietary or lifestyle factors have been identified which may have toxic or carcinogenic properties. However, several dietary compounds also able to reduce gastrointestinal cancer rates in both humans and animals have been characterized....

Тhe aim of the present study was identification of flavone aglycones and determination of the content of each and the content of total flavonoids as well as investigation of the eventual seasonal variations of flavonoids in Teucrium polium L. (Lamiaceae). The plant samples were collected at six different locations in Republic of Macedonia, during summer in 1999, 2000 and 2003. For determination...

Many samples of Monoclea gottschei from Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands have been compared for their flavonoids. The species exhibits the most diverse fla­ vonoid pattern ever observed for a liverwort. From different chemotypes 28 flavones were iso­ lated: 8 aglycones, 3 monoglycosides, 9 diglycosides, 6 triglycosides and 2 oligoor polyglyco­ sides. The chromatographic and s...

The H and C chemical shifts of flavone and its five derivatives were determined completely using the basic 1D and 2D NMR experiments and molecular modeling. Of the six compounds used for our experiments, the NMR data of three compounds were published previously, but we found that the data of two compounds included wrong assignments. Therefore, we report the corrected data and the complete assig...