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Chemical Constituents, Biological Activities, and Proposed Biosynthetic Pathways of Steroidal Saponins from Healthy Nutritious Vegetable-Allium. [PDF]

Nutrients, 2023
Allium is a common functional vegetable with edible and medicinal value. Allium plants have a special spicy taste, so they are often used as food and seasoning in people’s diets.
Wang H, Zheng Q, Dong A, Wang J, Si J.
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Steroidal saponins from the genus Allium. [PDF]

Phytochem Rev, 2016
Steroidal saponins are widely distributed among monocots, including the Amaryllidaceae family to which the Allium genus is currently classified. Apart from sulfur compounds, these are important biologically active molecules that are considered to be responsible for the observed activity of Allium species, including antifungal, cytotoxic, enzyme ...
Sobolewska D, Michalska K, Podolak I, Grabowska K.   +3 more
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Steroidal saponins: Natural compounds with the potential to reverse tumor drug resistance (Review). [PDF]

Oncol Lett
Steroidal saponins are a type of natural product that have been widely used in Chinese herbal medicine, with a variety of pharmacological activities, such as antitumor, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial effects.
Cui A, Liu H, Liu X, Zhang M, Xiao B, Wang B, Yang J.   +6 more
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Structures and Bioactivities of Steroidal Saponins Isolated from the Genera Dracaena and Sansevieria. [PDF]

Molecules, 2021
The species Dracaena and Sansevieria, that are well-known for different uses in traditional medicines and as indoor ornamental plants with air purifying property, are rich sources of bioactive secondary metabolites.
Thu ZM, Oo SM, Nwe TM, Aung HT, Armijos C, Hussain FHS, Vidari G.   +6 more
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Functional characterization of a novel β-glucosidase converting trillin to diosgenin from Enterococcus faecalis [PDF]

Microbial Cell Factories
Background Diosgenin, known as “medicinal gold”, is the main precursor for the synthesis of steroid hormone drugs. Currently, diosgenin is primarily produced industrially via the extraction of plant-derived steroidal saponins followed by acid hydrolysis,
Chen Zhou, Mengying Zhu, Qi Li, Wenjun Deng, Ningning Sun, Wenting Liu, Yawen Li, Xinyue Wang, Fan Zhang, Li Li, Jing Li   +10 more
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Plants' steroidal saponins - A review on its pharmacology properties and analytical techniques

World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2022
The plant is a rich repository of useful secondary metabolites with profound medicinal potential. Saponins, one type of bioactive compound, are amphitheatric glycosides with one and more hydrophilic sugar and hydrophobic steroidal and terpenoid part. The
Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Sudha Porte, V. Joshi, K. Shah   +3 more
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Steroidal saponins with anti-inflammatory activity from Tribulus terrestris L.

Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine, 2022
Objective: Tribulus terrestris L. (T. terrestris) is a highly valuable traditional Chinese medicine used to treat stroke, inflammation, pulmonary fibrosis, liver cancer, and urolithiasis.
Miao-Miao Yang, M. Oppong, Jin Di, Qing Yuan, Yan-Xx Chang, Miaomiao Jiang, Shijie Cao, Pengzhi Dong, Lin Li, Yan Xie, Xia-gang Luan, Li-min Hu, Lijuan Chai, P. Zhang   +13 more
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Steroidal saponin profiles and their key genes for synthesis and regulation in Asparagus officinalis L. by joint analysis of metabolomics and transcriptomics

BMC Plant Biology, 2023
Background Asparagus officinalis L. is a worldwide cultivated vegetable enrichened in both nutrient and steroidal saponins with multiple pharmacological activities.
Qin Cheng, Liangqin Zeng, Hao Wen, Sylvia E. Brown, He Wu, Xingyu Li, Chun Lin, Zhengjie Liu, Zichao Mao   +8 more
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Qualitative and Quantitative Estimation or Chemical Constituents from Leaves and Roots of Iraqi Agave Attenuata by GC-MS and RP-HPLC(Conference Paper) #

Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023
This research concentrate on cultivated Iraqi Agave attenuata dried leaves and roots, because of little studies on this plant especially on the root that lead to the eager of study and comparison of phytochemical constituents between leaves and root ...
Sherine Majeed Shah, Thukaa Z. Abdul-Jalil   +1 more
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Preparation and characterization of collagen microspheres for sustained release of steroidal saponins [PDF]

Materials Research, 2014
Steroidal saponins are the major pharmacological constituents of ophiopogon japonicus which have been used to treat bone and joint diseases, nerve damage, and hematischesis for hundreds of years in China.
Chunrong Yang, Jianhua Wang
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