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Eloy Rodriguez
Other affiliations: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bio: Eloy Rodriguez is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Parthenium argentatum & Sesquiterpene lactone. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 86 publications receiving 2031 citations. Previous affiliations of Eloy Rodriguez include Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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TL;DR: The sesquiterpene lactones, a large group of compounds with antiinflammatory properties and the ability to relax smooth muscles and thereby relieve gastrointestinal distress are emphasized.
Abstract: ▪ Abstract Traditional herbal remedies have increased in popularity in Europe and the United States in recent years but have always been important to people living in rural Mexico and to their Mexican American/Chicano descendants in the United States. Mexican American patients will often be ingesting herbal teas at the same time that they are being treated for their ailments with antibiotics or antiinflammatory agents. The plant family Asteraceae (Compositae) has contributed the largest number of plants to this pharmacopoeia; the reasons for the importance of this family include its large number of species in Mexico and its wide array of natural products that are useful in the treatment of the maladies that have afflicted the inhabitants of rural Mexico. These natural products include sesquiterpene lactones, polyacetylenes, alkaloids, monoterpenes, and various phenolics such as flavonoids. In this review, we emphasize the sesquiterpene lactones, a large group of compounds with antiinflammatory properties ...
225 citations
TL;DR: Chromenes (benzopyrans) and benzofurans are characteristic natural products of certain tribes of the Asteraceae and a review of recent findings can be found in this article.
158 citations
TL;DR: Recent in vivo antitumor studies with parthenin and eupatoriopicrin are discussed as well as the reports of the antiulcer activity of dehydroleucodin, and research on the neurotoxicity of repin is highlighted.
Abstract: Aspects of recent research on the biological activities of sesquiterpene lactones (SQLs) are presented. Several SQLs have been identified as important constituents of plants consumed by animals for presumed medicinal value and is a focus of research in zoopharmacognosy. Recent in vivo antitumor studies with parthenin and eupatoriopicrin are discussed as well as the reports of the antiulcer activity of dehydroleucodin. Helenalin has recently been reported to have cardiotonic activity. Research on the neurotoxicity of repin, a compound reported to cause a Parkinson's-like disease in horses, is also highlighted.
140 citations
TL;DR: Two African species of Aspilia (Asteraceae) were found to contain the potent antibiotic thiarubrine A as a major leaf phytochemical, which strengthens the view that the feeding behavior of wild chimpanzees is related to special physiological or pharmacological effects on the animals.
Abstract: Two African species of Aspilia (Asteraceae), which are used medicinally by man and which are eaten by wild chimpanzees in an unusual manner, were found to contain the potent antibiotic thiarubrine A as a major leaf phytochemical. Its presence in leaf material strengthens the view that the feeding behavior of wild chimpanzees is related to special physiological or pharmacological effects on the animals.
97 citations
01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The last years of the twentieth century offer both challenges and opportunities for phytochemists, which have turned to the tropical rain forests that contain most of the world’s species of plants and animals.
Abstract: The last years of the twentieth century offer both challenges and opportunities for phytochemists. The AIDS epidemic is still expanding and to date medical science has not been able to find effective treatments. Resistance to antibiotics, antimalarials, and other drugs occurs with increasing frequency. Crisis like these have created a new demand for phytochemical screening programs to detect antiviral plant products. Consequently the attention of phytochemists has turned to the tropical rain forests that contain most of the world’s species of plants and animals.
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TL;DR: Flavonoids are plant pigments that are synthesised from phenylalanine, generally display marvelous colors known from flower petals, mostly emit brilliant fluorescence when they are excited by UV light, and are ubiquitous to green plant cells.
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TL;DR: To consider a behavioral pattern as having evolved to serve a parasite control function the parasite or causative agent should be shown to adversely impact the animal's fitness and the behavior in question must be show to help animals, or their offspring or group mates, in combating their exposure, or reducing their vulnerability, to the parasite.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the diaza-1,4bicyclo [2.2] octane, la quinuclidine and ses derives, the quinine
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TL;DR: This review summarizes the present knowledge regarding the biological activities of sesquiterpene lactones and their structure-activity relationships and suggests their evolutionary significance in plants as deterrents against herbivores and anti-fungal, anti-bacterial allelopathic agents.
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TL;DR: The herbal NF-κB inhibitory compound parthenolide is shown to inhibit the activity of multiple inflammasomes in macrophages by directly inhibiting the protease activity of caspase-1, and vinyl sulfones are identified as a new class of potential therapeutics that target the NLRP3 inflammaome.
486 citations