Phenolics of Spanish Launaea species

Isolation of major phenolics fromLaunaea spinosaand their protective effect on HepG2 cells damaged witht-BHP

“…Many of its plants are used in folk medicine as hepatoprotective, bitter stomachic, for skin diseases, as antitumor and as insecticides (Khan et al, 2012). The genus Launaea is rich in different secondary metabolites, such as terpenoids (Abdel Fattah et al, 1990;Abdel Salam et al, 1986;Hook et al, 1984;Sarg et al, 1982;Sokkar et al, 1993), phenolics (El-Bassuony & Abdel-Hamid, 2006;Giner et al, 1992;Sarg et al, 1986), flavones (Gupta & Ahmed, 1985;Mansour et al, 1983), and coumarins (Saleh et al, 1988;Sarg et al, 1987).…”

The Palestinian Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Preserved at The Biology Exhibitions of The Universities of The Gaza Strip

“…It had economic values, ecological and ethnobotanical importance [8][9][10]. Despite the richness of Launaea species with different phenolic compounds such as flavonoids, coumarins and terpenoids [11][12][13][14], only limited data was available concerning the anticancer effects of its members.…”

Exploring the Chemical Diversity of Algerian Plants: Three New Pentacyclic Triterpenoids from Launaea acanthoclada Roots

“…In the course of our ongoing phytochemical studies on Algerian plants [ 8 , 9 , 10 ] we have investigated the chemistry of Algerian Launaea acanthoclada (local names “kebbad” and “cedada”). To the best of our knowledge, only two previous studies describing phenolic [ 11 ] and essential oil [ 12 ] components have been reported in the literature for this species. In particular, the essential oil fraction was found to be constituted by apocarotenoids, monoterpene and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons [ 12 ].…”