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Planta Med. 2012 Nov;78(17):1873-7. | New alkaloids and cytotoxic principles from Sinomenium acutum.[Pubmed: 23059629 ] | METHODS AND RESULTS:
Two new alkaloids, 2-demethyl-oxypalmatine (1) and 5-ethoxycarbonylsinoracutine (2), were isolated from the rhizomes of Sinomenium acutum, along with thirty-four known compounds. Cytotoxicity of the isolated compounds was examined for the MCF-7, H460, HT-29, and CEM human cancer cell lines.
CONCLUSIONS:
Dauriporphine (16), 6-O-demethylMenisporphine (17), bianfugecine (18), Menisporphine (19), and 6-O-demethyldauriporphine (20) showed differential effects in their cytotoxic activity on the target cancer cell lines. Significant angiogenesis inhibitions of 16 and 19 were also observed. | 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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