' It is called in Perfian, T'abajheer; in Hindoo, Buns-Iochun ' or fait of the Bamboo. It has a peculiar quality of ftrongly 1 adhering to the tongue, and is held in great cfteem by the * natives in a variety of difeafes ; but 1 have not yet been able ' to afcertain its virtues from my own experience. ' In a Perfian work (theTofut ul-Monein of Mahomed * Monein Hofeiny) I have found the followin...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Highly transferable expressed sequence tag (EST) microsatellites were developed for Panax ginseng (Araliaceae), one of the most celebrated traditional Chinese medicines and an endangered species in East Asia, using whole-genome data. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-one EST microsatellites were characterized from next-generation sequencing and were composed of di- and trinucleo...

Some lectins are known to stimulate interleukin-8 (IL-8) productions in human colon carcinoma Caco-2 cells. Since IL-8 may cause deleterious effects, we examined this stimulatory activity of Aralia cordate lectin (ACL) and Wasabia japonica lectin (WJL), both of which we isolated recently. The results indicate that ACL exhibited strong stimulatory activity for IL-8 protein production, while WJL ...

The present study was designed to evaluate the in vitro cytotoxic effect of methanol extract of aerial parts including stems, leaves and twigs of Aralia cachemirica and purified continentalic acid isolated from this extract against a panel of human cancer cell lines of varied tissues. Percentage of growth inhibition was evaluated by sulphorhodamine B assay. Purified continentalic acid showed mo...

We screened for human renin inhibitory activity in wild vegetables and found the activity in methanol extract of Aralia cordata. Physico-chemical data on the isolated inhibitors were identical to those of (–)-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid (kaurenic acid, KA) and pimaradienoic acids (PDA, 8:2 mixture of pimara-8(14), 15-dien-19-oic acid: pimara-9(11) 15-dien-19-oic acid). KA and PDA also inhibited porc...

A new cerebroside, 1-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(2S,3R,8E)-2-[(2'R)-2-hydroxy- palmitoylamino]-8-octadecene-1,3-diol, along with aralia cerebroside and 1-O-beta-D- glucopyranosyl-(2S,3S,4R,8E)-2-[(2'R)-2-hydroxybehenoylamino]-8-octadecene-1,3,4-triol were isolated from the roots of Serratula chinensis S. Moore. The structure of the new cerebroside was established by spectroscopic and chemical mean...