Plants are excellent sources of secondary metabolites that have been used for the treatment human diseases. The plant Momordica cymbalaria contains different types phytochemicals like phenols, steroids, flavonoids, alkaloids and tannins. present investigation was carried out to determine bioactive compounds in parts by Gas chromatography- Mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) technique. Chromatograms vivo ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Previous studies show that successful adaptation of euryhaline teleost fish to seawater (SW) involves the GH-IGF system. The increasing occurrence, distribution, and concentration of environmental contaminants, including environmental estrogens (EE), in aquatic habit over recent time may compromise the hypoosmoreegulatory ability of fish. In this study, we used rainbow tro...

Phytosterols are steroid compounds structurally similar with cholesterol and vary in the nature of carbon side chain. β-Sitosterol is commercially available in preparative amount only as mixtures with other phytosterols. New semipreparative synthesis of pure β-sitosterol and sidechain-modified phytosterols is discussed in this dissertation. This new synthesis is achieved via a temporary masking...

Abstract Antifungal activity of Monotheca buxifolia methanolic extract and its various fractions were assessed against Macrophomina phaseolina, a soil-borne fungal pathogen more than 500 vegetal species as well rare emerging opportunistic human pathogen. Different concentrations (3.125 to 200 mg mL −1 ) inhibited biomass by 39–45%. Isolated n- hexane, chloroform ethyl acetate suppressed 32–52%,...

An attempt was made to determine the mechanism for the greater absorbability of cholesterol as compared to sitosterol. Sitosterol-22,23-(3)H in different combinations with cholesterol-4-(14)C, dissolved in 0.8 ml of triolein, was fed to rats with lymph fistulae. Feeding 1.5, 50, or 100 micro moles of sitosterol resulted in a transfer to the lymph in 24 hr of 3-6% of the sitosterol, largely inde...

Background: Recently identified ABCG5/8 transporters are responsible in part for the different absorption rates of campesterol, sitosterol, and cholesterol. These transporters are also expressed in the liver and might regulate biliary sterol secretion. Aims: This study was therefore conducted to determine the biliary secretion rates and hepatic clearances of campesterol, sitosterol, and cholest...