A natural product betulinic acid (BA) has gained a huge significance in the recent years for
its strong cytotoxicity. Surprisingly, in spite of being an interesting cancer protecting agent on …

Botanical pentacyclic triterpenes possessed a broad range of pharmacological activities
such as anti-oxidant, anti-tumor, anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory activities. It is believed …

Lupeol is a triterpenoid, present in most of the medicinally effective plants and possess a
wide range of biological activity against human diseases. The present study aims at …

The chemical composition of the lipophilic extracts of the inner and outer bark fractions of
Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus urograndis (E. grandis× Eucalyptus urophylla) cultivated …

With central European approval in January 2016 for a betulin-oleogel (Episalvan), used to
accelerate wound closure in partial thickness wounds, the herbal active ingredient triterpene …

Rosemary extracts have exhibited potential cytostatic or cytotoxic effects in several cancer
cell models but their bioactive compounds are yet to be discovered. In this work, the …

Glioma, particularly its most malignant form, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is the most
common and aggressive malignant central nervous system tumor. The drawbacks of the …

UHPLC with QTOF-MS is widely used as a powerful tool for metabolomic analysis. This
technology has recently been applied to the analysis of polyphenols in food and herb …

Betulin (Bet), the main component of birch tree bark, has been recently reported to exert
anticancer activity in several cell lines; however the underlying mechanisms are only …

Triterpenes, thirty-carbon compounds derived from five-carbon isoprene units, are among
the largest and diverse classes of natural products. To date, over 20,000 distinct triterpene …