BACKGROUND AND AIMS The Diervilla and Lonicera clades are members of the family Caprifoliaceae (Dipsacales sensu Donoghue et al., 2001, Harvard Papers in Botany 6: 459-479). So far, the intergeneric relationships of the Lonicera clade and the systematic position of Heptacodium remain equivocal. By studying fruit and seed morphology and anatomy, an attempt is made to clarify these issues. In add...

Flos Lonicerae, a widely used Vietnamese medicinal material, is the dried buds or flowers of Lonicera japonica Thunb., and several other species genus such as dasystyla Rehd., confusa DC., cambodiana Pierre ex Danguy, belonging to family Caprifoliaceae. This material has been for long time in traditional medicine clearing heat, removing toxins, dispersing wind heat. According variety recent phy...

A qualidade dos Insumos Farmacêuticos Ativos Vegetais (IFAV) obtidos a partir de plantas medicinais depende um minucioso controle que garantam sua segurança física e biológica. Os derivados espécies vegetais têm ação no Sistema Nervoso Central (SNC) são muito utilizados por causarem menos efeitos adversos os psicofármacos sintéticos, o motiva busca tratamentos alternativos seguros. Entre as com...

The objective of this study was to obtain single oral dose toxicity information for concentrated and lyophilized powder of blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L., Caprifoliaceae; BHcL) in female and male ICR mice to aid in the process of developing natural origin medicinal ingredients or foods following proximate analysis and phytochemical profile measurement. The proximate analysis revealed th...

Flower symmetry is of special interest in understanding angiosperm evolution and ecology. Evidence from the Antirrhineae (snapdragon and relatives) indicates that several TCP gene-family transcription factors, especially CYCLOIDEA (CYC) and DICHOTOMA (DICH), play a role in specifying dorsal identity in the corolla and androecium of monosymmetric (bilateral) flowers. Studies of rosid and asterid...

Patrinia heterophylla Bunge, Caprifoliaceae, is a traditional Chinese medicine that has been used for cancer therapy. In our study, a panel of human cancer cells was treated with extract of Patrinia heterophylla Bunge. (PHEB), MTT study showed that PC-3 Human prostate adenocarcinoma was the most responsive (IC50 9.21±0.32 μg/mL) one to cell growth inhibition, the further study also demonstrated...

Lonicerae japonicae flos, a widely used traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has been used for several thousand years in China. Chinese Pharmacopeia once included Lonicerae japonicae flos of Caprifoliaceae family and plants of the same species named Lonicerae flos in general in the same group. Chinese Pharmacopeia (2005 Edition) lists Lonicerae japonicae flos and Lonicerae flos under different c...