sapogenins and gamma-sitosterol

To study the chemical constituents of leaves of Paulownia fortunei (Seem.) Hemsl.. The constituents were isolated by column chromatography and their structures were elucidated through spectroscopic analysis.. The compounds were identified as mimulone (I), apigenin (II), luteolin (III), 2alpha, 3beta, 19beta-trihydroxyurs-28-O-beta-D-galactonopyranos ylester (anserinoside, IV), 3alpha-hydroxyl-ursolicacid (V), ursolicacid (VI), daucosterol (VII), beta-sitosterol (VIII).. The compounds I - V are obtained from leaves of Paulownia fortunei (Seem.) Hemsl for the first time.

Topics: Apigenin; China; Luteolin; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Plant Leaves; Plants, Medicinal; Sapogenins; Scrophulariaceae; Sitosterols

To study the chemical constituents of Oxytropis chiliophylla.. The air-dried whole plants of O. chiliophylla were extracted with EtOH (90%) three times at room temperature. The compounds were isolated by silica-gel, polyamide, C-18 and Sphadex LH -20 columns. The structures were identified based on spectral analysis.. 8 compounds were isolated from O. chiliophylla and identified as azukisapogenol (1), (22E, 24R) -24-methyl-5alpha-cholesta-7, 22-diene-3beta, 5alpha, 6beta-triol (2), apigein (3), 3', 4'-dimethoxy-quercetin-3-O-beta-D-galactopyranoside (4), 7, 3', 4'-trimethoxy-quercetin-3-O-alpha-L-rhamopyranosyl-(1-->2)-beta-D-glucopyranoside (5), (2S, 3S, 4R)-N-[(R)-2'-hydroxytetracosanoyl]-1, 3, 4-trihydroxy-2-amino-octadeca-6-ene (6), beta-sitosterol (7), daucosterol (8).. All the compounds were isolated from O. chiliophylla for the first time.

Topics: Oxytropis; Plants, Medicinal; Sapogenins; Sitosterols

Four compounds were isolated from the fruit of cultivated Panax ginseng and identified as beta-sitosterol,20(R)-protopanaxatriol, daucosterine and 20(R)-ginsenoside-Rg3 on the basis of physicochemical constants and spectral evidences.

Topics: Fruit; Panax; Plants, Medicinal; Sapogenins; Sitosterols; Triterpenes

Two new pentacyclic triterpenoidal sapogenins of oleanane type, namely glyyunnansapogenin A (I) and glyyunnansapogenin B (II), together with a known compound beta-sitosterol were isolated and characterized from the roots of Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis Cheng f. et L. K. Tai, family Leguminosae, collected in Yunnan Province, China. I was obtained as its methyl ester (Ia), mp 276-277 degrees C, which formed a diacetate (Ic), mp 244-245 degrees C. II, mp 287-289 degrees C, gave a triacetate (IIb), mp 286-287 degrees C and a monomethyl ester (IIa), mp 272-275 degrees C, which further formed a triacetate (IIc), mp 187-189 degrees C and a diacetate (IId), mp 243-245 degrees C after treatment with acetic anhydride and pyridine over night at room temperature. The structures of I and II were established by spectral analyses of IR, 1H NMR, 13CNMR, MS, CD and ORD. Glyyunnansapogenin A (I) was proved to be 3 beta, 24-dihydroxy-16-oxo-olean-12-en-29-oic acid and glyyunnansapogenin B (II) 3 beta, 21 alpha, 24-trihydroxy-olean-12-en-30-oic acid respectively.

Topics: Chemical Phenomena; Chemistry; Glycyrrhiza; Plants, Medicinal; Sapogenins; Sitosterols; Triterpenes

Topics: Chemical Phenomena; Chemistry; Diterpenes; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Oleanolic Acid; Plants, Medicinal; Sapogenins; Sitosterols

Diosgenin and beta-sitosterol (1% in diet) were administered to CRJ:CD-1 male mice for 15 days, in order to examine the changes in bile acid metabolism. There were some differences between diosgenin and beta-sitosterol in their effects on diet intake, liver weight, and plasma cholesterol level. However, both phytosterols caused no statistically significant changes in body weight gain, decreased cholesterol absorption to about one-third that observed in control mice, decreased liver cholesterol level, increased fecal excretion of cholesterol, and decreased fecal excretion of bile acids. Most of the increase in fecal excretion of cholesterol occurred 2 days after the start of feeding of phytosterols and gradually declined thereafter, but the levels on day 15 were nevertheless higher than those in the control mice. The fecal excretion of bile acids decreased progressively after the treatment with phytosterols. The decrease of bile acid derived from chenodeoxycholic acid was more predominant than the decrease of those derived from cholic acid, resulting in an increase of the cholic acid/chenodeoxycholic acid ratio. The biliary cholesterol, phospholipid, and bile acid mole % ratios and the lithogenic index were not changed, but the percentages of cholic acid and its related bile acids (the cholic acid group) to the total bile acids increased and those of the chenodeoxycholic acid group decreased after the treatments. The pool size of bile acids decreased in the mice given diosgenin but not in those given beta-sitosterol. Distribution of bile acids between the gallbladder and intestine was not altered by either phytosterol.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Topics: Animals; Bile; Bile Acids and Salts; Body Weight; Cholesterol; Diet; Diosgenin; Feces; Kinetics; Liver; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred Strains; Sapogenins; Sitosterols