Constituents and biological effects of Reseda lutea and Reseda odorata grown in Iraq

Abstract

The current review revealed that Reseda lutea contained alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, anthocyanin, glucosides and tannins, and possessed antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, insecticidal, antiproliferative and antioxidant effects. While, Reseda odorata contained essential oil, phenylethyl mustard oil, luteolin glucoside, luteoloside, amino acids, 2(S),4(R)-4-(β-d-galactopyranosyloxy)-4-isobutylglutamic,O-(α-l-rhamnopyranosyloxy) benzylamine, O-hydroxybenzylamine, 2(S),2′(S)-N6-(2′-glutaryl)lysine (l-saccharopine) and 2(S)-2-aminoadipic acid. it exerted antiinflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer and neuroprotective effects

Natural sources as promising future anticancer therapies - A review

“…Reseda lutea showed significant antiproliferative effects against human A375 (melanoma) and MRC5 (fibroblast) cell lines (534) . While, Reseda odorata possessed anticancer effects against various types of human malignancies such as breast, colon, pancreatic, prostate, oral, lung, kidney, bladder, ovarian, cervical, placental, skin, liver, gastric, oesophageal cancers and glioblastoma (535)(536)(537) ,…”