The class of steroid-like compounds designated cardiac glycosides includes well-known
drugs such as digoxin, digitoxin, and ouabain. Their continued efficacy in treatment of …

Covering: up to 2012 Steroids, a widespread class of natural organic compounds occurring
in animals, plants and fungi, have shown great therapeutic value for a broad array of …

Drawing on the author's extensive personal experience, Medicinal Plants of Asia and the
Pacific provides comprehensive coverage of the medicinal plants of the region. Describing …

Background: Cancer continues to be a global burden, despite the advancement of various
technological and pharmaceutical improvements over the past two decades. Methods for …

AIM OF THE STUDY: For identification of the active constituents we investigated the
anticancer activity of cardenolides from Streptocaulon tomentosum Wight & …

An enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-digitoxigenin is described. This total synthesis is
accomplished in a convergent manner using two chiral fragments prepared via the catalytic …

Useful bioactive polycyclic natural products are important targets in academic research,
wherein their mechanisms of action and total syntheses are commonly investigated. In …

Despite numerous efforts to discover novel bioactive products from microorganisms,
previously reported compounds are repetitively reisolated. A new polyketide glycoside …

Six new non-classical cardenolides (1–6), and seventeen known ones (7–23) were isolated
from Calotropis gigantea. All cardenolides showed inhibitory effect on hypoxia inducible …

Extensive phytochemical investigation of the aerial parts of Euphorbia dracunculoides led to
the isolation of 19 structurally diversified diterpenoids with five different carbon skeletons …