The effects of osthol, a plant coumarin, on morphology, sugar uptake and cell wall components of Fusarium graminearum were examined in vitro by electron microscopy,(14)C-labelling and enzyme activity detection. The results revealed that osthol could inhibit the hypha growth of F. graminearum by decreasing hyphal absorption to reducing sugar. After treatment with 100 microg.mL(-1) osthol for 24 ...

OBJECTIVES This study focused on the assessment of acute toxicity caused by Osthol, a major component of environment-friendly biological pesticides, by using two aquatic organisms. METHODS The assessment of acute toxicity caused by Osthol was conducted in Daphnia magna and by examining the morphological abnormalities in Danio rerio embryos. RESULTS The median effective concentration value o...

Plants can defend themselves against fungal infection by natural means induced by biotic and abiotic elicitors. Osthol is a natural compound extracted from dried fruits of Cnidii Monnieri Fructus. In this study, it has been shown to not only be a fungicide with acceptable curative properties (control efficacy of 68.72), but it also showed a significant prophylactic effect (with control efficacy...

Cancer is caused by uncontrolled cell proliferation which has the potential to occur in different tissues and spread into surrounding and distant tissues. Despite the current advances in the field of anticancer agents, rapidly developing resistance against different chemotherapeutic drugs and significantly higher off-target effects cause millions of deaths every year. Osthol is a natural coumar...

Leishmaniasis has a wide spectrum of signs and symptoms due to infection to numbers of Leishmania species and makes enormous mortality and morbidity. There are clues of antileishmanial effects of prenylated coumarins. Apiaceae family is one of the most important sources of coumarins. Air-dried aerial parts of Ferulago angulata and fruits of Prangos asperula were extracted with n-hexane, using a...

A critical factor in the cause and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is growth ?-amyloid peptide (A?) brain. The mechanism this effect still unknown, although osthol on A?-induced inflammation neuroprotective AD supplementation with zinc might prevent or delay onset dementia. In current study, by inducing APP vector human BE (2)-M17 cells, we established a cellular model investigated prot...

In the crystal structure of the title osthol derivative, C(18)H(23)NO(4), mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into an infinite chain running parallel to the c axis. The CH(3)CH(2)- atoms of the propionamide group are disordered over two sets of sites with refined occupancies of 0.689 (12) and 0.311 (12).

Antipruritic effects of 70% ethanol extract (CM-ext) of Cnidii Monnieri Fructus (dried fruits of Cnidium monnieri CUSSON, Umberifferae) were investigated. In mice, an oral administration of CM-ext (200 and 500 mg/kg) inhibited compound 48/80-induced scratching behavior without influence on spontaneous locomotion. Isopimpinellin (3) and osthol (1), coumarin derivatives isolated from CM-ext, show...

leishmaniasis has a wide spectrum of signs and symptoms due to infection to numbers of leishmania species and makes enormous mortality and morbidity. there are clues of antileishmanial effects of prenylated coumarins. apiaceae family is one of the most important sources of coumarins. air-dried aerial parts of ferulago angulata and fruits of prangos asperula were extracted with n -hexane, using ...