Developing and germinating pea seeds were compared with respect to their capacity to incorporate mevalonate into sterols and triterpenes. The capacity for sterol synthesis is greatest in the least mature fruits and decreases during their development. Label is shown, by gas-liquid chromatography and counting the radioactivity of trapped fractions, to be associated with campesterol, beta-sitoster...

Abstract Background Medicinal plants have been the mainstay for treatment of various diseases since antiquity. The importance ethnomedicinal in drug discovery and development can never be overemphasized. Breonadia salicina (Vahl) Hepper J.R.I.Wood (Rubiaceae) is a medium to large plant that widely distributed tropical subtropical regions; leaf, stem bark, root used folk medicine cancer, arthrit...

A phytochemical study of two plant species, Viscum cruciatum Sieber and Crataegus monogyna Jacq., was completed to investigate the influence of the parasite Viscum cruciatum on the host Crataegus monogyna. The study was carried out with two samples and consisted of hexane extracts of the Viscum cruciatum parasitizing on Crataegus monogyna and C monogyna. In these samples ursolic acid, beta-sito...

Holoptelea integrifolia (Ulmaceae) is a versatile medicinal plant used in various indigenous systems of medicine for curing routine healthcare maladies. It is traditionally used in the treatment and prevention of several ailments like leprosy, inflammation, rickets, leucoderma, scabies, rheumatism, ringworm, eczema, malaria, intestinal cancer, and chronic wounds. In vitro and in vivo pharmacolo...

A petroleum ether extract (PEE) and a methanolic extract (ME) of aerial parts of Salvia bicolor Desf were prepared, and their chemical compositions and antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antimicrobial activities were evaluated. GC/MS analysis of the PEE revealed the presence of 20 compounds in the unsaponifiable matter, among which β-sitosterol and β-amyrin (constituting 24.75% and 1...

The aerial parts of Salvia glutinosa afforded in addition to lupeol, a - and ? - amyrin a furanosesquiterpene, its structure being established by high field NMR techniques. The relative configuration at C-1, C-10, C-4, C-5 and C-6 of 6?tigloyloxyglechomafuran 1 was determined by the observed NOE'S