Anti-inflammatory sesquiterpenes from Curcuma zedoaria
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Anti-inflammatory sesquiterpene furanodiene and furanodienone suppressed the TPA-induced inflammation of mouse ears by 75% and 53%, respectively, at a dose of 1.0 µmol and their activities are comparable to that of indomethacin, the normally used anti-inflammatory agent.About:
This article is published in Natural Product Research.The article was published on 2006-08-21 and is currently open access. It has received 170 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Curcuma zedoaria & Germacrone.read more
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Curcumin-free turmeric exhibits anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities: Identification of novel components of turmeric
TL;DR: A review of the anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities exhibited by CFT and by some individual components of turmeric, including turmerin, turmerone, elemene, furanodiene, curdione, bisacurone, cyclocurcumin, calebin A, and germacrone.
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Chemical Composition and Biological Activities of Essential Oils of Curcuma Species.
TL;DR: This review summarizes the volatile components of various Curcuma species, the biological activities ofCurcuma essential oils, and potential safety concerns of curcuminoids and their components.
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Curcuma zedoaria Rosc.(white turmeric): a review of its chemical, pharmacological and ethnomedicinal properties
TL;DR: This study is an attempt to compile an up-to-date and comprehensive review of C. zedoaria that covers its traditional and folk medicinal uses, phytochemistry and pharmacology, and botany, chemistry, traditional uses and pharmacological data of the plant.
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Anti-cancer properties of terpenoids isolated from Rhizoma Curcumae--a review.
TL;DR: This review aims to systematically summarize and analyze the anti-cancer properties of terpenoids, the main components of essential oils in Rhizoma Curcumae, and thus enable the development of new anti- cancer drugs.
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Screening of thirteen medicinal plant extracts for antioxidant activity
TL;DR: In this article, the antioxidant activity and radical scavenging activity of methanolic extracts of selected plant materials, traditionally used by Iranian population as folk remedies was evaluated against linoleic acid peroxidation and 2,2diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical.
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Cytotoxic components of Zingiber zerumbet, Curcuma zedoaria and C. domestica.
TL;DR: One new and five known compounds, which all showed cytotoxic activity, were isolated from the rhizomes of Zingiber zerumbet. The new compound was 3″,4″- O -diacetylafzelin this paper.
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Medicinal foodstuffs. XXVIII. Inhibitors of nitric oxide production and new sesquiterpenes, zedoarofuran, 4-epicurcumenol, neocurcumenol, gajutsulactones A and B, and zedoarolides A and B, from Zedoariae Rhizoma.
TL;DR: The effects of isolated components on nitric oxide production in lipopolysaccharide-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages were examined and 16 sesquiterpenes including gajutsulactones A and B, and bis(4-hydroxycinnamoyl)methane were found to show inhibitory activity.
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The mouse ear edema: a quantitatively evaluable assay for tumor promoting compounds and for inhibitors of tumor promotion.
TL;DR: The induction of edema in the mouse ear has been established as a reliable in vivo assay for tumor promoting compounds and for inhibitors of tumor promotion.
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Hepatoprotective constituents from zedoariae rhizoma: absolute stereostructures of three new carabrane-type sesquiterpenes, curcumenolactones A, B, and C.
TL;DR: Curcumenone, a principal carabrane-type sesquiterpene from Zedoariae Rhizoma, was found to show potent protective effect on D-galactosamine/lipopolysaccharide-induced acute liver injury in mice.
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Structures of sesquiterpenes from Curcuma aromatica Salisb.
TL;DR: In this paper, three new sesquiterpenes, isozedoarondiol (8), methylzedoarondions (9) and neocurdione (10), were isolated along with germacrone (1), curdione (2), (4S, 5S) -germacrone 4, 5-epoxide (3), dehydrocurdione(4), procurcumenol (5), zedoarONDiol (6), and curcumenone (7) from Curcuma aromatica SALISB.