objectives: 7-prenyloxycoumarins are a group of secondary metabolites that are found mainly in plants belonging to the rutaceae and umbelliferae families. this study was designed to evaluate and compare the cytotoxic and apoptotic activity of 7-prenyloxycoumarin compounds and herniarin on mcf-7, a breast carcinoma cell line. materials and methods: cells were cultured in rpmi medium and incubate...

Oxyprenylated natural products (isopentenyloxy-, geranyloxyand the less spread farnesyloxycompounds and their biosynthetic derivatives) represent a family of secondary metabolites that have been considered for years just as biosynthetic intermediates of C-prenylated derivatives. Prenyloxycoumarins are secondary metabolites commonly present in plants belonging to the families of Rutaceae and Umb...

Objectives: 7-prenyloxycoumarins are a group of secondary metabolites that are found mainly in plants belonging to the Rutaceae and Umbelliferae families. This study was designed to evaluate and compare the cytotoxic and apoptotic activity of 7-prenyloxycoumarin compounds and herniarin on MCF-7, a breast carcinoma cell line. Materials and Methods: Cells were cultured in RPMI medium and incubate...

Objective(s): Auraptene, a monoterpene coumarin from Citrus species, exhibits cardioprotective effects.In this study, the effects of auraptene administration were investigated on blood pressure of normotensive and desoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) salt induced hypertensive rats. Materials and Methods: Five weeks administration of auraptene (2, 4, 8 and 16 mg/kg/day) and nifedipine (0.25, 0.5,...

Dietary polyphenols are important potential chemopreventive natural agents. Other agents, such as citrus compounds, are also candidates for cancer chemopreventives. They act on multiple key elements in signal transduction pathways related to cellular proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, inflammation, and obesity. This short review article provides our findings of preclinical studies on po...

The constituents of Citrus plants were investigated to develop useful agents that are effective in cancer chemoprevention. We examined the roots and bark of the roots of various Citrus plants, resulting in the isolation of many novel compounds. Their structures were determined using spectroscopic methods, especially 2D-NMR spectra. The following new compounds of constituents were found: dimeric...

objective(s): auraptene (7-geranyloxycoumarin) (aur), from citrus species has shown anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, and acetylcholinesterase (ache) and beta-secretase inhibitory effects. scopolamine is a nonselective muscarinic receptor antagonist which causes short-term memory impairments and is used for inducing animal model of alzheimer’s disease (ad). this research aimed to investigate ...

Objective: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the deadliest type of primary brain tumors, and the survival of patients is estimated to be only about one year. This study, for the first time, investigated the cytotoxic effects of auraptene on U87 GBM cell line.<b...