Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality, only overcome by cardiovascular diseases,
and has caused more than 8.7 million deaths in 2015 all over the world. This figure is …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Sophora alopecuroides L., which is called Kudouzi in
China, is a medicinal plant distributed in Western and Central Asia, especially in China, and …

Quinolizidine alkaloids, as essential active ingredients extracted from Sophora
alopecuroides Linn, have been well concerned in the past several decades owing to the …

Three new matrine-type alkaloids,(+)-5α-hydroxyoxysophocarpine (1),(−)-12β-
hydroxyoxysophocarpine (2), and (+)-5α-hydroxylemannine (3), along with 14 known …

Matrine is a component of the traditional Chinese medical herb Sophora flavescens Ait,
which is widely used to treat diseases such as viral hepatitis, cardiac arrhythmia and skin …

Sophora is a genus of the Fabaceae family, contains about 52 species, nineteen varieties,
and seven forms that are widely distributed in Asia, Oceanica, and the Pacific islands, in the …

Abstract Background The genus Sophora (Fabaceae) represents one of the important
medicinal plant genera regarding its chemical constituents and outstanding …

Quinolizidine alkaloids (QAs) are nitrogen-containing compounds produced naturally as
specialized metabolites distributed in plants and animals (eg, frogs, sponges). The present …

Born and educated in South Africa, Jo Michael received his PhD in 1975 from the University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He spent the following two years as a post-doctoral …

Four novel matrine-based alkaloids (1–4) were isolated from the seeds of Sophora
alopecuroides. Compounds 1 and 2 possess unprecedented 6/6/6/4 and 6/5/6/6 ring …