• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.33 no.4 s.131
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• pp.267-271
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• 2002

Prunasin and pomolic acid together with a mixture of ursolic and oleanolic acids, (-)-epicatechin and ${\beta}-sitosterol$ glucoside were isolated from the roots of Chaenomeles japonica. Among these compounds, the isolation of pomolic acid and prunasin is the first report from the genus Chaenomeles.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.33 no.3 s.130
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• pp.191-193
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• 2002

The fruit of Euphoria longana Lamarck (Sapindaceae) is a sweet food which is available in China and South Asia. Its pulp or flesh (Longan Arillus) is used as a tonic, and for the treatment of amnesia, insomnia, various palpitations due to fright, etc. It is traditionally said to fortify the heart and stabilize the spirit. Four compounds were isolated from the pulp of E. longana. The structures of these compounds were determinded as ${\beta}-sitosterol$, daucosterol, uracil and adenosine by means of spectroscopic methods.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.270-272
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• 2003

The methanol extract of Euphorbia milii exhibited strong inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation in the cource of our search for anti-platelet component from succulent plants. Two components, components 1 and 2 were isolated from this plant. 1 was the mixture of 72% of 1-octacosanol (1a) and 28% of 1-triacontanol (1b), and 2 was identified as ${\beta}-sitosterol$. 2 ($IC_{50}$: $195\;{\mu}M$, and $170\;{\mu}M$ respectively) was about two fold stronger than ASA ($IC_{50}$: $420\;{\mu}M$ and $340\;{\mu}M$ respectively) on both collagen and U46619 induced aggregation, while the effect of 1 to platelets was negligible.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.73-77
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• 1986

Anthraquinones, physcion (I), mp $204{\sim}205^{\circ}$ and emodin (II), mp $254{\sim}255^{\circ}$, and $emodin-8-O-{\beta}-{_D}-glucoside$ (IV), mp $191{\sim}192^{\circ}$ together with ${\beta}-sitosterol$ glucoside (III), mp $280{\sim}282^{\circ}$ were isolated from the roots of Polygonum ellipticum Migo and P. sachalinense Fr. Schm. (Polygonaccae). Stilbene derivatives, 3,5,4'-trihydroxystibene (V), mp $258{\sim}260^{\circ}$ and $3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene-3-O-{\beta}-{_D}-glucoside$ (VI), mp $142{\sim}144^{\circ}$ were also isolated.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.207-211
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• 1998

Three prolyl endopeptidase inhibitors were isolated and identified as luteolin, quercetin and ${\beta}$-sitosterol-3-O-${\beta}$-D-glucopyranoside with $IC_{50}$ of 0.17, 0.19 and 27.5 ppm, respectively. The inhibition of two flavonoids were non-competitive with substrate. Twenty authentic flavonoids were tested in order to investigate structure-activity relationship. No significant relationship was found in them, however, catechol moiety of B-ring and 7-OH group in flavonoid skeleton were seemed to be responsible for the stronger activity.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.902-905
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• 2003

Five compounds of terpenoids and coumarins were isolated from the non-polar fraction of Artemisia apiacea by open column chromatography. Their structures were elucidated as $\alpha$-amyrin (1), $\beta$-amyrin (2), $\beta$-sitosterol (3), 5,6,7-trimethoxycoumarin (4) and 6-methoxy-7,8-methylenedioxycoumarin (5) by chemical and spectroscopic analysis. This is the first report of the isolation of $\alpha$-amyrin, $\beta$-amyrin, 5,6,7-trimethoxycoumarin and 6-methoxy-7,8-methylene-dioxycoumarin from this plant.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.219-225
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• 1995

Five kinds of 4-demethylsterol were isolated from suspension cultured cells of a liverworth, Marchantia polymorpha. Four 4-demethylsterols among them were analyzed by a capillary gas chromatography-massspectrometry and 500 MHz 1H-NMR, and characterized to be avenasterol, 24-methylene-cholesterol, stigmasterol, and campesterol. And the fifth 4-demethylsterol was characterized to be sitosterol by a capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The concentration of the 4-demethylsterols in the cell decreased in order of avenasterol>stigmasterol>24-methylene-cholesterol>campesterol>sitosterol. When carbon skeleton and the oxidation state was compared with those of brassinosteroids, these 4-demethylsterols may be potent biosynthetic procusors of brassinosteroids in the cells.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.23-25
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• 2002

Ten compounds were isolated from the stem barks of Acanthopanax gracilistylus WW Smith (AGS) by steam distillation, they were p-menta-1,5,8-triene, n-butyl isobutylphthalate, p-mentha-1,5-diene-8-ol, 8-hydroxy-p-cymene, myrtenol, trans-(+)-carveol, 1,3-di-tert-butylbenzene, 4-methyl-2,6-di-butylphenol, valencene and verbenone, respectively, characterized by GS-Mass spectra. And we have also extracted and isolated from the MeOH extracts of the stem barks of AGS, two compounds were obtained. On the basis of chemical and spectral evidence, they were syringin(l), ${\beta}-sitosterol(2)$.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.76-83
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• 2007

In this study, three triterpenoids, two steroids and nine flavonoids were isolated from the leaves of Alnus firma Sieb. et Zucc. On the basis of spectroscopic evidences, the structures of these compounds were established as ${\beta}$-amyrin acetate, ${\beta}$-amyrin, ${\beta}$-sitosterol, alnustic acid methyl ester, ${\beta}$-sitosterol glucoside, pinocembrin, alnustinol, quercetin, quercetin-3-O-${\alpha}$-L-arabinofuranoside, quercetin-3-O-${\alpha}$-L -rhamnopyranoside, quercetin-3-O-${\beta}$-D-glucopyranoside, myricetin-3-O-${\beta}$-D-galac-topyranoside, (+)-catechin and (-)-epicatechin.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.300-305
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• 2000

Five compounds were isolated from the fruits of Evodia daniellii $H_{EMSLEY}$. Their structures were identified as 2-oxotridecanyl acetate, bergapten, limonin, squalene, ${\beta}-sitosterol$ on the basis of spectral data. Among these compounds, 2-oxotridecanyl acetate and squalene were isolated in this plant for the first time.