BACKGROUND Studies have suggested the chemopreventive effects of flavonoids on carcinogenesis. Yet numbers of epidemiologic studies assessing dietary flavonoids and breast cancer risk have yielded inconsistent results. The association between flavonoids, flavonoid subclasses (flavonols, flavan-3-ols, etc.) and the risk of breast cancer lacks systematic analysis. OBJECTIVE We aimed to examine ...

Radix scutellariae and Scutellariae-Paeoniae couple extracts are the well-known Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to treat ulcerative colitis. Baicalin, wogonoside, baicalein and wogonin are the main effective ingredients in Radix scutellariae. This study was carried out to investigate the excretion profiles of baicalin, wogonoside, baicalein and wogonin in urine and feces after oral administr...

The flavones apigenin (4',5,7,-trihydroxyflavone) and luteolin (3',4',5,7,-tetrahydroxyflavone) are plant secondary metabolites with antioxidant, antiinflammatory, and anticancer activities. We evaluated their impact on cell signaling pathways related to insulin-resistance and type 2 diabetes. Apigenin and luteolin were identified in our U-2 OS (human osteosarcoma) cell screening assay for micr...

OBJECTIVE To observe the effects of paeoniflorin and total flavones extracted from Qixue Bingzhi Recipe on proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) cultured in endothelial cell conditioned medium (EC-CM) induced by oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) and the expressions of platelet-derived growth factor and its receptor genes. METHODS The VSMCs were cultured in normal cultu...

The reaction of phenols with 7a led to the synthesis of aurones, while the reaction of phenols with 7b led to the synthesis of flavones.

aerial parts of salvia mirzayanii was extracted with methanol. methanol extract was suspended in water and defatted with petroleum ether. the defatted part was then partitioned between ethyl acetate and water. the ethyl acetate partition was chromatographed on a silica gel column to afford several fractions. lymphocyte proliferation inhibitory assay of the resulted fractions was compared in vit...

The oxidation of the ferrocenyl group of 2'-hydroxyferrocenyl chalcones activates the beta-position of the unsaturated ketone to nucleophilic attack to yield the first examples of ferrocenyl flavones. These compounds are significantly more cytotoxic than their organic analogs on B16 melanoma cells, with IC(50) values in the low micromolar range.

Dietary flavonols and flavones are subgroups of flavonoids that have been suggested to decrease the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The authors prospectively evaluated intakes of flavonols and flavones in relation to risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction and fatal CHD in the Nurses' Health Study. They assessed dietary information from the study's 1990, 1994, and 1998 food frequency quest...