supported by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(grant 2021-I2M-1-032).The funders had no role in the design of the study;the collection,analyses,or interpretation of data;the writing of the manuscript;or the decision to publish the results.
Dear Editor,Gynostemma pentaphyllum(Thunb.)Makino,a perennial climbing vine in the Cucurbitaceae family,has been widely used in traditional medicine for over 600 years(Blumert and Liu,1999).It serves as a valuable nat...
Sixteen new dammarane-type triterpenoid saponins(1-16)featuring diverse structural variations in the side chain at C-17,along with twenty-one known analogues(17-37),have been isolated from the rhizomes of Gynostemma l...
supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea,grant No.2016R1D1A3B03930722(to MKL),Republic of Korea
Gynostemma(G.) pentaphyllum(Cucurbitaceae) contains various bioactive gypenosides. Ethanol extract from G. pentaphyllum(GP-EX) has been shown to have ameliorative effects on the death of dopaminergic neurons in animal...
In this paper,the advances in study on triterpenoids in Trichosanthes,Hemsleya,Gynostemma,Actinostemma and Siraitia Merr. plants were reviewed.Terpenoids are the main secondary metabolites of Cucurbitaceae and have ob...