A new saponin from seeds of Amoora rohituka

Preliminary Cytotoxicity Screening of Some Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh

“…Vincristine sulphate and DMSO were used as positive and negative control, respectively. 12 7-keto-octadec-cis-I 1-enoic acid. Leprous and obstinate ulcers, toothache, mouth sores, impotency.…”

Complete assignments of 1H and 13C NMR data for rings A,B‐seco limonoids from the seed of Aphanamixis polystachya

“…It has been extensively investigated since the 1960s because of the anticancer, 1,2 antimicrobial and antifungal, 3 anti-inflammatory, 4 and insectidal potential, 5 and hepatoprotective properties 6 of the plant extracts. Earlier studies on this plant have disclosed the presence of alkaloids, 7 fatty acids, 8 flavonoids, 9 -12 lignans, 13 steroids, 14,15 diterpenoids, 16 sesquiterpenoids, 17 triterpenoids, 1,18 -20 and a series of complex tetranortriterpenoids (limonoids) (including dihydroamoorinin 21 and amoorinin, 22 and its glucosides, 9 aphanamixinin, 18 kihadalactone and polystachin, 23 rohituka 1-9, 24 -26 rohituka 12-14, 23 and rohitukin 27 ). Our early work on investigating the chemical constituents of the plant seed resulted in the isolation of a known dregeana-1 (2) and a novel limonoid rohituka-15 (3).…”

Some chemical investigations of Amoora rohituka seed proteins

“…A flavone glycoside isolated from the root of the plant (Jain & Srivastava, 1985), and a keto fatty acid was also isolated from the seed oil of this plant (Daulatabad & Jamkhandi, 1997). Some more compounds like triterpenoids, limonoids, alkaloids and saponin were also isolated from this plant (Bhatt, Saxena, & Nigam, 1981;Chatterjee, Kundu, Chakraborty, & Chandrasekharan, 1970;Harmon, Weiss, & Silverton, 1979;Kundu, Roy, & Chatterjee, 1985;Mulholand & Naidoo, 1999). Amooranin, a triterpenoid isolated from stem bark of A. rohituka showed an anticancer effect against a colon carcinoma cell line in vitro (Ramchandran et al, 2006).…”