Sapogenins are relatively cheap raw materials for the synthesis of a number of medicinally important steroids. Diosgenin is an aglycone of the steroidal saponin, dioscin, in yam and is a principal raw material for the industrial production of steroid drugs. It belongs to triterpene group and is of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry because of its estrogenic effect on the mammary glan...

Quatro saponinas esteroidais e três sapogeninas foram identificadas das partes aéreas de Brachiaria decumbens. As estruturas desses compostos foram estabelecidas através de métodos químicos e espectroscópicos (RMN de H e C, HMBC, HMQC) como 3 -metóxi-lanost-9(11)-eno (1), diosgenina (2a), iamogenina (2b), 3-O-D-glicopiranosil-24(S)-etil-22E-deidrocolesterol (3a), 3O-D-glicopiranosil-24(R)-etil-...

The chemotherapeutic study of a limited series of steroidal sapogenins from several endemic species of the flora of the Canary Islands is presented here. On the whole, they possess a very weak antibacterial activity, a slight antifungal effect and one of them, vespertilin, displays interesting cytostatic activity (ID50 = 5 micrograms/ml). A pharmacodynamic screening carried out on this product ...

Five steroidal sapogenins (tigogenin, neotigogenina, hecogenin, gloriogenin, and dehydrohecogenin) were characterised by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) from a hydrolysed extract of sisal waste. In addition, pure hecogenin, an important raw material for the pharmaceutical industry, was obtained from this waste by selective liquid-liquid extraction of saponins with only...

A series of saponins and sapogenins from Medicago species were tested for their ability to bind and activate the nuclear receptor PPARγ by SPR experiments and transactivation assay, respectively. The SPR analysis proved to be a very powerful and fast technique for screening a large number of compounds for their affinity to PPARγ and selecting the better candidates for further studies. Based on ...