Current strategies for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) treatment are mainly symptomatic; development of disease-modifying therapies is urgently needed. Polygonum Multiflorum has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for long history in treatment of dementia. Pharmacological studies suggested Polygonum Multiflorum could improve learning and memory abilities in animal models of AD, and inhibit β-amy...

Friable calli of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb have been induced in MS medium supplemented with 6-benzylaminopurine (6-BA) and kinetin (KT). Suspension cultures were initiated from friable calli by inoculating calli in liquid MS medium in shake flasks in the dark and 25 °C on an orbital shaker at 100 rpm. The maximum dry weight (DW, 7.85 g/L) and 2,3,5,4'-tetrahydroxystilbene-2-O-β-D-glycoside (T...

Resveratrol is a dietary polyphenolic compound widely used in medicine, food, and cosmetic products. The glycoside form of resveratrol, piceid, is also present in several plant materials but is less bioavailable. In this study, enzymatic transformation of piceid into resveratrol using inexpensive cellulase was investigated. Response surface methodology was used to evaluate the effect of reactio...

The introduced Asian plant Polygonum cespitosum has only recently become invasive in northeastern North America, spreading into sunny as well as shaded habitats. We present findings from a multiyear case study of this ongoing species invasion, drawing on field environmental measurements, glasshouse plasticity and resurrection experiments, and molecular genetic (microsatellite) data. We focus in...

2,3,5,4'-Tetrahydroxystilbene-2-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (1), isolated from Polygonum multiflorum, is a noncompetitive inhibitor of tyrosinase in cell-free kinetics; it reduced the Vmax values in a dose-dependent manner. Compound 1 inhibited PKA-induced melanogenesis, reduced the protein expression of tyrosinase and its transcription factor, the microphthalmia-associated transcription factor, and ...

Polygonum multiflorum, a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, is widely used in liver and liver nourishing. Recent years, drug regulatory departments reported that Polygonum multiflorum caused serious adverse reaction in clinic, especially liver injury. In this study, we detected the changes in rat serum and liver tissue metabolites through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Mass spec...

Global environmental change not only entails changes in mean environmental conditions but also in their variability. Changes in climate variability are often associated with altered disturbance regimes and temporal patterns of resource availability. Here we show that increased variability of soil nutrients strongly promotes another key process of global change, plant invasion. In experimental p...

Seven phenolic compounds were isolated from a MeOH extract of the leaves of Grevillea robusta. Their structures were determined by various spectral methods including 2D NMR spectroscopy.