Antinociceptive activity of petroleum ether fraction from the MeOH extracts of Paederia scandens in mice

Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Sanyeqing) root tuber extracts induces apoptosis in human cervical carcinoma HeLa cells

“…In addition, several studies investigated chemical components and biological activities of the leaves (Hossain et al, 2011;Shao et al, 2011;Sun et al, 2013). Petroleum ether fraction (PEF) is a major part that exhibits various biological activities, including antiinflammatory (Guo et al, 2011), anti-hypoxic activity , anti-nociceptive activity (Chen et al, 2008), anti-bacterial (Zhang et al, 2010) and anti-tumor (Cao et al, 2013) activities in Chinese folk medicine.…”

Analysis of iridoid glucosides from Paederia scandens using HPLC–ESI-MS/MS

“…It has long been used in India, China and Vietnam for the treatment of toothache, chest pain, piles, inflammation of the spleen, rheumatic arthritis, and bacillary dysentery [2,3]. Iridoid glycosides have been isolated as major compounds from the stem and root of P. scandens [4][5][6][7][8][9], and found to have antiviral, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive and antimicrobial activities [2,[10][11][12].…”

Preliminary evaluation of antitumor effect and induction apoptosis in PC-3 cells of extract from Patrinia heterophylla

“…Iridoid is a wide class of the main components existed in Patrinia (Liu et al, 2006;Yang et al, 2004). Reports showed that iridoids have the effect of sedative and hypnotic (Cometa et al, 2009;Chen et al, 2007). However, there is almost no other report about the antitumor effect of iridoids.…”