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ORIGINAL ARTICLEPharmacognosy ResearchVol. 7 | Issue 4 | 2015 | pp. 322–328Open access
Antiproliferative evaluation of terpenoids and terpenoid coumarins from Ferulago macrocarpa (Fenzl) Boiss. fruits
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- 1 Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
- 2 Isfahan Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan
- 3 Novel Drug Delivery Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah
- 4 Department of Pharmacognosy and Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah
- 5 Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Razi University, Kermanshah 67149
- 6 Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
Published in Pharmacognosy Research
Correspondence: Yalda Shokoohinia
Novel Drug Delivery Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah; Department of Pharmacognosy and Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah
Email: yshokoohinia@kums.ac.ir
Copyright: © 2015 Manuscript Technomedia. This is an open access article.
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- Jan 1, 2015
How to cite
Sajjadi, S. E., Jamali, M., Shokoohinia, Y., Abdi, G., Shahbazi, B., & Fattahi, A. (2015). Antiproliferative evaluation of terpenoids and terpenoid coumarins from Ferulago macrocarpa (Fenzl) Boiss. fruits. Pharmacognosy Research, 7(4), 322–328. https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-8490.158437
Abstract
Background
Ferulago macrocarpa is a plant used as flavoring agent and protectant in the food industry and as a folk medicinal plant in Iran with no available information on its chemical identity. Ferulago spp. showed to contain biologically terpenoids and coumarins.
Objective
The objective was to isolate and characterize terpenoids and coumarins from the acetone extract of F. macrocarpa fruits and to evaluate their antiproliferative effects on several cell lines.
Materials and Methods
A series of normal and reverse phase gravity and high-performance liquid chromatography analyses were used to purify constituents. Compounds 1–5 and 7 were evaluated for their cytotoxic effects on MCF-7, HT-29 and H-1299 cell lines.
Results
Six compounds including bornyl acetate (1), 1,10-di-epi-cubenol (2), stigmasterol (3) and three coumarins grandivittin (4), prantschimgin (5) and 4”-hydroxygrandivittin (7) along with mixtures of feruloyl derivatives (6a-6c) have been purified. Their structures were established by spectroscopic methods including nuclear magnetic resonance and MS analyses. Compound 2 showed moderate cytotoxicity effect with IC50 values of 5.0 and 6.7 mM on MCF-7 and HT-29, respectively.
Conclusion
1,10-di-epi-Cubenol could be considered as a potential proliferation inhibitor of MCF-7 and HT-29 cell lines.
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Article metadata
| Title | Antiproliferative evaluation of terpenoids and terpenoid coumarins from Ferulago macrocarpa (Fenzl) Boiss. fruits |
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| Authors | Seyed-Ebrahim Sajjadi; Maryam Jamali; Yalda Shokoohinia; Gisya Abdi; Behzad Shahbazi; Ali Fattahi |
| Affiliations | Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences; Isfahan Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan; Novel Drug Delivery Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah; Department of Pharmacognosy and Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah; Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Razi University, Kermanshah 67149; Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran |
| Corresponding author | yshokoohinia@kums.ac.ir |
| Journal | Pharmacognosy Research |
| Volume / Issue | Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2015) |
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