Plants of genus Cichorium (Asteraceae) can be used as vegetables with higher nutritional value and medicinal plants. This has beneficial properties owing to the presence a number specialized metabolites such alkaloids, sesquiterpene lactones, coumarins, unsaturated fatty acids, flavonoids, saponins, tannins. endivia L., known escarole, achieved common food status due its nutritionary value, bit...

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Six new sesquiterpene coumarin derivatives, fukanefuromarin H-M (1-6), were isolated from an 80% aqueous methanol extract of the roots of Ferula fukanensis. The structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic evidence, particularly heteronuclear multiple-bond connectivity (HMBC) and high-resolution MS. The sesquiterpene coumarin derivatives inhibited nitric oxide (NO) and inducible NO ...

Abstract Artemisia annua (annual mugwort) is a species that has long been used in traditional Asian medicine, mainly Chinese and Hindu. The widespread known as medicinal plant not only Asia but also Europe, both Americas, Australia. become subject of particular interest due to the 2015 Nobel Prize awarded for detecting sesquiterpene lactone artemisinin it proving its antimalarial activities. ra...

ISSN: 2410-8790 Asif, M., / Current Science Perspectives 1(3) (2015) 77-90 www.iscientic.org www.bosaljournals/csp/ 78 [email protected] on the traditional knowledge of medicinal plant use (Cox 1994). These compounds have made many plants useful also for humans for instance as spices, medicines etc. Natural coumarins, like other unsaturated lactones, may exert various effects on livin...

Coumarins are natural plant products that have been the subject of extensive phytochemical and pharmacological research studies in the past few decades. The core structure of coumarins is derived from the respective cinnamates via ortho-hydroxylation of the aromatic ring, trans/cis isomerization, and lactonization. Various substitution patterns of coumarins have been reported, whereas the biosy...

Background and objectives: Interaction of compounds with ct-DNA can affect the replication, protein synthesis and cell division. Different species of the genus Ferula (Apiaceae) have shown various biomedical applications for many centuries. Biological features of this genus such as cytotoxicity, antibacterial, antiviral, P-glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitory and antiinflamm...

Coumarins are natural polyphenol lactones comprising of fused rings of benzene and α-pyrone. The current study demonstrates the inhibitory effect of coumarins with various substitutions on Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155. We also demonstrate the effect of pomegranate (Punica granatum) extract containing ellagic acid, on M. smegmatis as well as their affect on MtbFtsZ (FtsZ from Mycobacterium tu...