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    1 - Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and biological activities of selected African species of the genus <i>Ficus</i>
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 1 , السنة 6 , زمستان 2022
    The genus Ficus is one of the largest genera of the mulberry family (Moraceae) consisting of about 800 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines and climbers collectively known as &lsquo;figs&rsquo; occurring in most tropical and subtropical forests worldwide. Fig plants ar أکثر
    The genus Ficus is one of the largest genera of the mulberry family (Moraceae) consisting of about 800 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines and climbers collectively known as &lsquo;figs&rsquo; occurring in most tropical and subtropical forests worldwide. Fig plants are known for their ethnopharmacological, therapeutic and commercial importance and have been used in traditional medicines as a cure against malaria, diabetes, cancer, diarrhea, pyretic, ulcer, as well as gastrointestinal and urinary tract infections. Therefore, the present review aims to offer an updated compendium of documents sourced from recent publications regarding ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and biological activities of nine selected African Ficus species with the aim to open new prospects and strategies for further pharmacological research as a remedy for various ailments and for drug development. تفاصيل المقالة

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    2 - UPLC in phytochemical analysis
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 1 , السنة 3 , زمستان 2019
    Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC), which has been around just over one and a half decade, is an advanced liquid chromatographic technique that offers a significantly short analysis time and small amount of solvent(s) as a mobile phase. It also provides much أکثر
    Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC), which has been around just over one and a half decade, is an advanced liquid chromatographic technique that offers a significantly short analysis time and small amount of solvent(s) as a mobile phase. It also provides much better separation efficiency and resolution of analyte mixtures. تفاصيل المقالة

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    3 - Computer-aided phytochemical research
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 1 , السنة 1 , زمستان 2017
    Nowadays computation or computational aspects are present almost in everything we do. Over the last couple of decades, the advancement in computer science and their applications in our everyday life has simply been phenomenal, and has impacted positively on how we carry أکثر
    Nowadays computation or computational aspects are present almost in everything we do. Over the last couple of decades, the advancement in computer science and their applications in our everyday life has simply been phenomenal, and has impacted positively on how we carry out research. Chemistry has already embraced computation and various mathematical modelling to solve various research questions and to develop new methods, which have finally led to the establishment of a recognised branch in Chemistry, known as Computational Chemistry. تفاصيل المقالة

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    4 - ‘Helencha’ (<i>Enhydra fluctuans</i> Lour.): A brief overview
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 1 , السنة 6 , زمستان 2022
    &lsquo;Helencha&rsquo; (Enhydra fluctuans Lour.), a well-known but underused leafy vegetable with medicinal properties, belongs to the family Asteraceae (alt. Compositae). This aquatic or semi-aquatic herb is also known by several other common names such as &lsquo;buffa أکثر
    &lsquo;Helencha&rsquo; (Enhydra fluctuans Lour.), a well-known but underused leafy vegetable with medicinal properties, belongs to the family Asteraceae (alt. Compositae). This aquatic or semi-aquatic herb is also known by several other common names such as &lsquo;buffalo spinach&rsquo;, &lsquo;English marsh herb&rsquo;, &lsquo;godobos&rsquo;, &lsquo;harkuch&rsquo;, &lsquo;hilmochikah&rsquo;, &lsquo;hinche&rsquo;, &lsquo;jalabrahmi&rsquo;, &lsquo;phak bung ruem&rsquo; and &lsquo;zhao ju&rsquo;.Enhydra fluctuans is synonymous with Coreopsis anagallis, Enhydra anagallis, E. linifolia, E. longifolia, E. paludosa, E. wollsii, Tetraotis longifolia, T. paludosa and Meyera fluctuans. This plant is indigenous to Bangladesh and India, but also native to other South- East Asian countries like Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, and introduced in various other countries, e.g., China, the Philippines, Senegal and Zaire. تفاصيل المقالة

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    5 - <i>Arbutus pavarii</i> Pamp. – An updated profile
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 2 , السنة 5 , بهار 2021
    Arbutus pavarii Pamp. (fam. Ericaceae), commonly known as &ldquo;Shmeri&rdquo; or &ldquo;Libyan Strawberry&rdquo;, is an endemic Libyan medicinal plant, currently considered as an endangered species of shrub or tree (Kabiel et al., 2016), and has attracted public attent أکثر
    Arbutus pavarii Pamp. (fam. Ericaceae), commonly known as &ldquo;Shmeri&rdquo; or &ldquo;Libyan Strawberry&rdquo;, is an endemic Libyan medicinal plant, currently considered as an endangered species of shrub or tree (Kabiel et al., 2016), and has attracted public attention in relation to its conservation. The distribution of this important forage species of plant for honeybees to produce specific honey type is considerably confined to the Al-Akhdar mountainous region in Libya. تفاصيل المقالة

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    6 - A mini-review on oxysporone
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 2 , السنة 1 , بهار 2017
    Oxysporone, possessing a 4H-furo(2,3-b)pyran-2(3H)-one structure, is a fungal metabolite, first isolated from Fusarium oxysporum. Later, this compound was also reported from the fungal genera, Diplodia, Pestalotia and Pestalotiopsis. Oxysporone was patented as an antibi أکثر
    Oxysporone, possessing a 4H-furo(2,3-b)pyran-2(3H)-one structure, is a fungal metabolite, first isolated from Fusarium oxysporum. Later, this compound was also reported from the fungal genera, Diplodia, Pestalotia and Pestalotiopsis. Oxysporone was patented as an antibiotic for the treatment of dysentery, and its phytotoxic property has been well-established. Interesting biological and chemical properties of oxysporone make this compound attractive for its potential biotechnological applications in agriculture, especially as a new agrochemical with a lower environmental impact. However, it requires further extensive bioactivity screening looking at beyond its established phytotoxicity and preliminary antifungal property. It has a simple chemical structure (C₇H₈O₄), and the hydroxyl group at C-4 provides options for synthesising numerous analogues by simply incorporating various functionalities at C-4, whilst keeping the main skeleton intact. This mini-review provides a critical overview on the occurrence, production, synthesis, structure elucidation and bioactivities of oxysporone. تفاصيل المقالة

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    7 - Automated structure elucidation of phytochemicals
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 3 , السنة 1 , تابستان 2017
    Plants produce a variety of chemical compounds, and plants have been the main source of new chemical entities and novel chemical scaffolds or templates, unfolding new challenges for organic synthetic chemists to explore appropriate synthetic routes for their total synth أکثر
    Plants produce a variety of chemical compounds, and plants have been the main source of new chemical entities and novel chemical scaffolds or templates, unfolding new challenges for organic synthetic chemists to explore appropriate synthetic routes for their total synthesis. Because of the unique chemical diversity offered by plants, it is often a tedious and complicated process when it comes to structure elucidation of phytochemicals. Recent advances in spectroscopic techniques, particularly in NMR and MS methodologies, have provided various tools that assist phytochemists with the structure elucidation of known or new phytochemicals. However, spectroscopic data interpretation manually requires significant experience and expertise, knowledge, intellectual ability and patience; often the manual process can be quite time consuming and even be frustrating. Over the last several decades, especially with the phenomenal progress in computation and applications of artificial intelligence and various mathematical modelling, several automated spectral data interpretation and structure elucidation software have become available to the phytochemists. These automated tools, not necessarily have replaced human intelligence or efforts, but certainly have facilitated the process, and improved the accuracy of structure elucidation of phytochemicals. تفاصيل المقالة

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    8 - ‘Thankuni’ [<i>Centella asiatica</i> (L.) Urban]: When food is medicine
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 3 , السنة 5 , تابستان 2021
    &rsquo;Thankuni&rsquo; [Centella asiatica (L.) Urban; synonyms: Hydrocotyle asiatica L.; Trisanthus cochinsinensis Lour.] is one of the widely consumed Bangladeshi edible plants from the family Apiaceae (alt. Umbelliferae) (Fig. 1). &lsquo;Thankuni&rsquo;, also known as أکثر
    &rsquo;Thankuni&rsquo; [Centella asiatica (L.) Urban; synonyms: Hydrocotyle asiatica L.; Trisanthus cochinsinensis Lour.] is one of the widely consumed Bangladeshi edible plants from the family Apiaceae (alt. Umbelliferae) (Fig. 1). &lsquo;Thankuni&rsquo;, also known as &lsquo;Goku Kola&rsquo; in India, is an herbaceous perennial plant, indigenous to Bangladesh, India and a few other Asian countries, as well as wetlands of the South-East USA. this plant is called &lsquo;Indian pennywort&rsquo; or &lsquo;Asiatic pennywort&rsquo;. تفاصيل المقالة

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    9 - ‘Gandho badali’ (<i>Paederia foetida</i> L.): Horrendous smell, but tremendous medicinal value
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 4 , السنة 5 , پاییز 2021
    &lsquo;Gandho badali&rsquo; (Paederia foetida L.), a well-known medicinal plant from the family Rubiaceae with a fetid smell, is indigenous to Bangladesh, but also native to several other South- and Far-Eastern Asian countries like Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indone أکثر
    &lsquo;Gandho badali&rsquo; (Paederia foetida L.), a well-known medicinal plant from the family Rubiaceae with a fetid smell, is indigenous to Bangladesh, but also native to several other South- and Far-Eastern Asian countries like Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. In addition to the Bengali name &lsquo;Gandho badali&rsquo;, this perennial climber is also commonly known as &lsquo;Gandhobadulia&rsquo;, &lsquo;Kings tonic&rsquo;, &lsquo;Skunkvine&rsquo;, &lsquo;Stinkvine&rsquo; an &lsquo;Chinese fever vine&rsquo;. Phytochemical investigations on this plant established the presence of alkaloids, anthraquinones, coumarins, iridoids, lignans, phenolics, steroids and terpenoids. Aizarin, asperuloside, campesterol, 1,3-dihydroxy-2-methoxyanthraquinone, digiferrol, ellagic acid, epifriedelinol, friedelin, lupeol, morindaparvin A, paederoside, paederosidic acid, sitosterol, stigmasterol and ursolic acid are the major secondary metabolites found in various parts of P. foetida. تفاصيل المقالة

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    10 - Droplet Counter Current Chromatography (DCCC) in herbal analysis
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 4 , السنة 4 , پاییز 2020
    About half a century ago, the separation science was blessed with the introduction of a new liquid-liquid separation technique called droplet counter current chromatography (DCCC) that combined principles of counter current distribution and counter current chromatograph أکثر
    About half a century ago, the separation science was blessed with the introduction of a new liquid-liquid separation technique called droplet counter current chromatography (DCCC) that combined principles of counter current distribution and counter current chromatography, and employed a liquid stationary phase held in a cluster of vertical glass columns connected in series. In fact, DCCC is based on the partitioning of solutes between a constant stream of droplets of mobile phase and a column of surrounding stationary phase. تفاصيل المقالة

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    11 - Flavonoids from two Turkish <i>Centaurea</i> species and their chemotaxonomic implications
    Trends in Phytochemical Research , العدد 4 , السنة 1 , پاییز 2017
    Centaurea asutro-anatolica Hub.-Mor. and C. kizildaghensis Uzunh., E. Doğan &amp; H. Duman, two indigenous perennial herbs from the Turkish flora, belong to the medicinally important genus Centaurea L. (fam: Asteraceae), which comprises ca. 600 species worldwide. While أکثر
    Centaurea asutro-anatolica Hub.-Mor. and C. kizildaghensis Uzunh., E. Doğan &amp; H. Duman, two indigenous perennial herbs from the Turkish flora, belong to the medicinally important genus Centaurea L. (fam: Asteraceae), which comprises ca. 600 species worldwide. While various Centaurea species are well-known for producing alkaloids, flavonoids, lignans and terpenoids, there is no report on any thorough phytochemical work on any of these two species available to date. In continuation of our phytochemical and bioactivity studies on the Turkish Centaurea species, four flavonoids apigenin (1), apigenin 7,4&rsquo;-dimethyl ether (2), genkwanin (3) and quercetin (4) were isolated from the methanol extracts of the aerial parts of C. austro-anatolica and C. kizildaghensis, for the very first time. The structures of the flavonoids were elucidated conclusively by spectroscopic means, i.e., UV, MS and 1D and 2D NMR data analyses. The distribution of these flavonoids (1-4) within the genus Centaurea and their possible chemotaxonomic implications within the genus Centaurea or the family Asteraceae have been discussed. تفاصيل المقالة