1 Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, “V. Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara 2 Department of Biochemistry, “V. Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara 3 Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, “V. Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara 4 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, “V. Babeș” University...

Isoflavonoids are distributed predominantly in leguminous plants and play critical roles in plant physiology. A cytochrome P450 (P450), 2-hydroxyisoflavanone synthase, is the key enzyme in their biosynthesis. In cultured licorice (Glycyrrhiza echinata L., Fabaceae) cells, the production of both an isoflavonoid-derived phytoalexin (medicarpin) and a retrochalcone (echinatin) is rapidly induced u...

Pteriid oysters (Pinctada maxima, Pinctada margaritifera, Pinctada albina, Pteria penguin), rock oysters (Saccostrea glomerata, Saccostrea cuccullata, Saccostrea echinata) and representatives of other taxa (Malleidae, Isognomonidae, Pinnidae, Mytilidae, Spondylidae, Arcidae) from the wild, and 4670 hatchery-reared P. maxima, from northern and Western Australia, were examined for parasites and d...

Ayurveda is the most ancient traditional system of medicine in India with sound philosophical, experiential and experimental basis, which is used to treat the human disease[1]. Due to increased side effects, high cost of new drugs, lack of curative treatment at root level and development of new disease, people not only in developing countries but also in developed countries rely on herbal medic...

Phytochemical survey of stems and leaves of the South Brazilian endemic Raulinoa echinata Cowan, Rutaceae led to the isolation of five limonoid derivatives: the widespread limonin, limonexic acid, kihadalactone B, a methoxylated limonexic acid derivative and a degraded limonoid structurally related to fraxinellone. The two latter compounds have been isolated for the first time. These compounds ...