Aberrant activation of NLRP3 inflammasome has been implicated in the pathogenesis of diverse inflammation-related diseases, and pharmacological molecules targeting NLRP3 inflammasome are of considerable value to identifying potential therapeutic interventions. Cardamonin (CDN), the major active ...

Ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury is a cellular damage in a hypoxic organ following the restoration of oxygen delivery. It may occur during organ transplantation, trauma and hepatectomies. Nitric oxide (NO) effects during hepatic I/R are complicated. The iNOS-derived NO has a deleterious effect,...

The present study aimed to evaluate the anti-colitis effect and underlying mechanisms of cardamonin, a natural flavone isolated from Alpinia katsumadai Hayata. The results showed that oral cardamonin significantly inhibited dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)- and 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (T...

BackgroundUlcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease with significant morbidity. Cardamonin is a natural chalcone derivative with considerable anti-inflammatory activity. Herein, the potential protective effect of cardamonin against UC was tested in a rat model.

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a crucial role in the induction of innate immune response against bacterial and viral infections. TLRs induce downstream signaling via MyD88- and TRIF-dependent pathways. Cardamonin is a naturally occurring chalcone from Alpinia species exhibiting anti-inflammator...

BackgroundThe mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) integrates energy level to modulate cell proliferation and autophagy. Cardamonin exhibits anti-proliferative activity through inhibiting mTOR. In this study, the effect of cardamonin on autophagy and its mechanism on mTOR inhibition were investi...

Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf. had been traditionally used as herbs to treat pain and rheumatism. Cardamonin (2′,4′-dihydroxy-6′-methoxychalcone) is a compound isolated from Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf.. Previous study had shown the potential of cardamonin in inhibiting the release of p...

New series of N,N′-disubstituted benzimidazole-2-thione were synthesized by introduction of hydrazone moiety in the side chains. The toxicological potential of studied compounds was evaluated by monitoring the cell viability and levels of lactate dehydrogenase, glutathione and malonaldehyde in ...

Novel hybrids bearing a 2-aminopyrimidine (2-AP) moiety linked to substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazoles were designed, synthesized and biologically evaluated. Among the developed compounds, 28 noncompetitively inhibited human acetylcholinesterase (hAChE; pIC50 = 6.52; Ki = 0.17 µM) and showed potential...

The leaves of Dacryodes edulis were investigated for their anti-oxidative and anti-diabetic potentials in vitro. Extracts from sequential extraction with solvents of increasing polarity (n-hexane, ethyl acetate, ethanol and aqueous) of the leaves were subjected to in vitro antioxidant assays usi...

The antioxidant effect of 2-methyl-6-(p-methoxyphenyl)-3,7-dihydroimidazo[1,2-α]pyrazin-3-one (MCLA), a Cypridina luciferin analog that acts as a chemiluminescence probe to detect O⋅−2, was investigated. MCLA produced a lag in oxygen consumption induced by cumene hydroperoxide in microsomes or ...

Fluorescent derivatives of 7-methylguanine were prepared through reaction with 2-arylsubstituted-malondialdehydes and analysed by reversed-phase HPLC with fluorescence detection. Reaction of carbons 1 and 3 of the malondialdehyde molecule at the N1 and N2 positions of 7-methylguanine yielded flu...

Curcumin (1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,6-heptadiene-3,5-dione, 1) is a yellow ingredient isolated from turmeric (Curcumin longa). It has been shown to exhibit a variety of biological activities including antioxidative activity. In order to find more active antioxidants with 1 as the lead...

A short synthesis of 3-O-stearoyl (S,R), (R,S), (S,S) and (R,R) C36-corynomycolic acids is described. Coupling through a spacer to

A new and efficient method for the preparation of four possible stereoisomers of β-alkylhomoallylic alcohols 1 has been developed which is based on the diastereoselective addition of nucleophiles to optically active α-alkyl-β-trimethylsilyl-β,γ-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. The utility of...

Reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography of corynomycolic acids provided a specific pattern for each Corynebacterium species studied. These data suggest that a fast and reproducible procedure is now available for bacteriological identification at the genus and at the species level of...

A previous paper indicated that corynomycolates synthesized by the fluffy layer fraction prepared from Corynebacterium matruchotii cells appeared exclusively as α-trehalose 6-monocorynomycolate (TMM) (T. Shimakata, K. Tsubokura, T. Kusaka, and K. Shizukuishi, 1985, Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 238, ...

Thermospray mass spectral (TSP-MS) analyses were carried out on methyl corynomycolates, their 3-O-acetyl and 3-O-benzoyl derivatives, and on corynomycolic acids and their 3-O-acetyl derivatives, using an ion generating solvent system consisting of water/issopropanol (99:1, v//v) containing 0.1 M...

3-Keto derivatives were prepared in good yield by the oxidative procedure with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyanobenzoquinone from N-acetyl sphingosine, N-palmitoyl sphingosine, N-lignoceroyl sphingosine, and N-lignoceroyl psychosine. None of these 3-keto derivatives, except the one from N-acetyl sphingos...

The application of magnetic CuFe2O4 nanoparticles for the oxidative amidation of aldehydes with amine hydrochloride salts is described. A wide range of amides have been synthesized in good to excellent yields under mild conditions. Chiral amide also synthesized from its corresponding chiral amin...