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| Arch Pharm Res. 2016 May;39(5):713-20. | | Anti-osteoclastogenic effects of isoquinoline alkaloids from the rhizome extract of Sinomenium acutum.[Pubmed: 26992921] |
METHODS AND RESULTS:
A phytochemical investigation for the rhizome extract from Sinomenium acutum (Menispermaceae) resulted in the isolation of several active principles responsible for the anti-osteoclastogenic property of the extract, together with related isoquinoline alkaloids (1-13) including two new compounds, 1 and 2. Among isolated compounds, salutaridine (7), dauricumine (10), cheilanthifoline (12), and dauriporphine (13) were observed to give significant inhibitions on receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand-induced differentiation of mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages into multinucleated osteoclasts, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS:
The chemical structures of two newly isolated compounds, 1 and 2 were established as 8-demethoxycephatonine (1) and 7(R)-7,8-dihydrosinomenine (2), by spectroscopic analyses including 2D NMR experiments. | | Arch Pharm Res. 2006 Aug;29(8):627-32. | | Aporphine alkaloids and their reversal activity of multidrug resistance (MDR) from the stems and rhizomes of Sinomenium acutum.[Pubmed: 16964757] |
METHODS AND RESULTS:
Chromatographic separation of the MeOH extract from the stems and rhizomes of Sinomemium acutum led to the isolation of nine alkaloids and a lignan. Their structures were determined to be dauriporphine (1), bianfugecine (2), dauriporphinoline (3), menisporphine (4), (-)-syringaresinol (5), N-feruloyltyramine (6), acutumine (7), dauricumine (8), sinomenine (9), and magnoflorine (10) by spectroscopic means. These compounds were examined for their P-gp mediated MDR reversal activity in human cancer cells.
CONCLUSIONS:
Compound 1 showed the most potent P-gp MDR inhibition activity with an ED50 value 0.03 microg/mL and 0.00010 microg/mL in the MES-SA/DX5 and HCT15 cells, respectively. |
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