Acteoside (ACT) isolated from L. was investigated as a corrosion inhibitor of copper in 1.0 M HNO acid solutions using conventional weight loss, electrochemical polarization, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe current study was designed to uncover the chemistry and bioactivity potentials of growing wild in Jordan. In this context, the fresh aerial parts obtained from the plant material were subjected to hydrodistillation followed by GC/MS analysis. The main components of the HDEO were γ-patchoulene (23.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn line with the importance of L. (Lamiaciatae) in traditional medicine as a calming and sedative remedy, the present study was designed to reveal its chemical constituents and bioactivity potentials. Thus, after extraction and fractionation of the plant material, the obtained butanol fraction (BPm) was subjected to conventional chromatographic separation of its constituents in addition to LC-MS/MS evaluation versus some authentic standards.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, iron oxide (FeO) magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets were prepared via the co-precipitation technique and the Modified Hummer method. FeO MNPs and GO nanosheets were combined to prepare FeO/GO nanocomposite and subsequently conjugated with Digitonin (DIG) in order to obtain a dual-targeted delivery system based on DIG/FeO/GO nanocomposite. SEM images reveal the presence of FeO MNPs at a scale of 100 nm, exhibiting dispersion between the GO nanosheets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDifferent drying techniques may alter the chemical composition of plant extracts and consequently affect their bioactivity potential. The current study was designed to reveal the effect of four different drying methods on the phytochemical composition and antioxidant activity of hydrodistilled essential oil (HD-EO) and methanolic (APM) extract obtained from the aerial part of from Jordan. Aerial parts of in their fresh (FR) form and after drying in shade (ShD), sun (SD), oven at 40 °C (O40D) and 60 °C (O60D), in addition to microwave (MWD), were used to extract their essential oils by hydrodistillation and to prepare the different methanolic extracts (APM).
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June 2023
The genus is one of the largest genera belonging to the Scrophulariaceae family. Different members of the genus exhibit an interesting, wide spectrum of bioactivities. Accordingly, the current study aimed to investigate, for the first time, the chemical composition of the essential oil of Post.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince the first report of the organoselenium compound, ebselen, as a potent inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 M main protease by Z. Jin et al. (Nature, 2020), different OSe analogs have been developed and evaluated for their anti-COVID-19 activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAromatic plants embrace volatile compounds with efficiency in treating different diseases. In Jordan, flower buds (clove) are extensively used as folk medicine without awareness of its bio-safe dosage. Herein, clove buds were hydrodistilled using the Clevenger apparatus, and the resulting essential oil (CEO) was analyzed using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to evaluate the antioxidant activity and total phenolic content (TPC) and total flavonoid content (TFC) of crude extracts obtained from three species, namely, L., L., and (Forsk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAsian Pac J Cancer Prev
January 2022
Aim: To investigate the potential anti-inflammatory and biochemical effects of Moringa peregrina leaf extracts on testosterone-induced benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in rats.
Methods: Six groups of rats (each group included 5 rats) were included in this study. The groups included: 1) the control group, 2) the testosterone-induced BPH group, 3) with 50 mg/kg bwt (bodyweight) oil-treated BPH, 4) with 100 mg/kg bwt.
The new cyclic polyketide 7,9,11-trihydroxytetracos-2-eneoic acid -lactone (), together with other eleven known compounds, were isolated from , growing wildly in Jordan. All isolated compounds were identified by thorough investigation of their spectral data including NMR and HRESIMS. Antioxidant activity testing of puerol B, specionin and the new cyclic polyketide revealed that puerol B had the highest DPPH radical scavenging activity (IC 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvestigation of the chemical constituents of growing wild in Jordan led to the isolation and identification of 15 known compounds. These included: luteolin-3'-methyl ether (), indole-3-carboxyaldehyde (), -hydroxybenzaldehyde (), tricin (), apigenin (), methyl isoferuloyl-7-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) lactate (), methyl rosmarinate (, rosmarinic acid (), salvigenin (), -sitosterol (), 3, 28-dihydroxyurs-12-ene (), cirsilineol (), 2,3-dihydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid (), -sitosteryl glucoside (), and tormentic acid (). Compounds and exhibited strong radical scavenging and chelating activities as compared to α-tocopherol and ascorbic acid, compound showed a 2-fold greater antioxidant activity as compared to compound .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aims: In our quest for new natural anticancer agents, we studied the cytotoxicity of the essential oils extracted from flowers and leaves of Pallines spinosa.
Methods: The essential oils were extracted by hydrodistillation and solid phase microextraction (SPME) from flowers and leaves of the plant and their composition was determined by GC/GC-MS. The cytotoxicity of the oils was evaluated against MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 breast adenocarcinomas, and the non-cancerous MCF-10-2A cells, using a flow cytometry-based assay Apoptosis was evaluated by flow cytometry, nuclear staining, caspases activation, and Western blotting techniques, and cell cycle by measuring DNA contents.
This study was performed to determine the chemical composition, antioxidant and cytotoxic effects of essential oils extracted from the aerial parts of fresh (F-PSEO) and air-dried (D-PSEO) Pallenis spinosa. The composition of the oils was analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and GC/mass spectrometry, the antioxidant activity by free radical scavenging and metal chelating assays, and their cytotoxicity by a flow cytometry analysis. The primary components in both oils were sesquiterpene hydrocarbons and oxygentated sesquiterpenes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhytochemical investigation of the chemical constituents of the aerial parts of Scabiosa prolifera L. led to the isolation of one new flavonol glycoside, kaempferol-3-O-(4″,6″-di-E-p-coumaroyl)-β-D-galactopyranoside (1), along with ten other known compounds including luteolin-7-O-(2″-O-ethyl-β-glucopyranoside), β-sitosterol, β-sitosterylglucoside, ursolic acid, corosolic acid, ursolic acid 3-O-β-D-arabinopyranoside, apigenin, methyl-α-D-glucopyranoside, luteolin-7-O-β-glucopyranoside and isoorientin. The structures of all isolated compounds were established using chemical methods and spectroscopic methods including IR, UV, NMR (1D and 2D) and HRESIMS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvestigation of the chemical constituents of Aristolochia maurorum growing wild in Jordan resulted in the isolation and characterisation of one new compound in addition to 19 known compounds. The new compound was identified as aristolochic acid II alanine amide (14). The other known compounds were the following: palmitic acid (1), β-sitosterol (2), E-ethyl-p-coumarate (3), Z-ethyl-p-coumarate (4), aristolochic acid IV methyl ester (5), aristolactam I (6), loliolide (7), (+)-dehydrovomifoliol (8), glycerol-1-palmitate (9), aristolochic acid I (10), E-p-coumaric acid (11), E-N-coumaroyltyramine (12), β-sitosteryl glucoside (13), aristolochic acid IV (15), aristolochic acid III (16), esculetin (17), uracil (18), shepherdine (19) and adenosine (20).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this work was to determine the composition of the hydro-distilled essential oil of Salvia judaica Boiss. and S. multicaulis Vahl.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNatural and chemically synthesized heterocyclic compounds have been explored for their potential use as anticancer agents. We had synthesized non-natural heterocyclic analogs and evaluated their anti-tumor activity by measuring effect on cell proliferation and induction of apoptosis in different cell lines. Previously, we identified a pyrazole-containing compound (G-11) showing cytotoxic effect towards leukemia and lymphoma cell lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnticancer properties of chemically synthesized compounds have continuously been optimized for better efficacy and selectivity. Derivatives of heterocyclic compounds are well known to have selective antiproliferative effect against many types of cancer. In this study, we investigated the ability of an indigenously synthesized anticancer molecule, G-11 [1-(2",3",4",6"-Tetra-O-acetyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-4-(3'-trifluoromethylphenylhydrazono)-3-trifluoromethyl-1,4-dihydropyrazol-5-one], to cause selective cytotoxicity and induce differentiation in the acute myeloid leukemia HL-60 cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChemical investigation of Gynandriris sisyrinchium (L.) Parl growing in Jordan resulted in the isolation and characterization of a total of twelve compounds two of which are reported here for the first time in nature. These new compounds included the isoflavones; 3'-methyl tenuifone (2) and gynandrinone (5).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvestigation of the butanol fraction of Salvia palaestina Benth. from Jordanian origin resulted in the isolation and characterization of nine compounds, three of which are reported here for the first time in Nature. These compounds included the two phenolics: salpalaestinin (1), methyl 3-O-methylrosmarinate (3) and the flavonoid luteolin 7-O-(2″-p-hydroxybenzoyl)-β-glucuronide) (8).
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February 2013
Two new triterpenes of the taraxasterol skeleton are isolated for the first time form Pergularia tomentosa L. of Algerian origin. The new compounds were named pergularine A and pergularine B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe volatile constituents of the aerial flowering parts of Linum pubescens were collected by hydro-distillation and analysed by GC and GC/MS. Analysis allowed the identification of 68 components of which, geranyl isovalerate (18.93%), lauric acid (12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe composition of the essential oil of fresh and air-dried Salvia palaestina Benth. (Lamiaceae) growing wild in Jordan has been studied using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. The essential oils of fresh and air-dried S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvestigation of the aerial parts of Sisymbrium irio L. (Cruciferea) collected in northern Jordan afforded two new compounds, sitosteryl-6'-O-undecanoate-beta-D-glucoside (1) and (Z)-8,11,12-trihydroxyoctadec-9-enoic acid (2), in addition to 12 known compounds, 10 of which are reported for the first time from the plant. The structures of all of the compounds were established by spectroscopic and chemical methods.
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