TY - BOOK ID - 33060121 TI - Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 107 AU - Kinghorn, A. Douglas. AU - Falk, Heinz. AU - Gibbons, Simon. AU - Kobayashi, Jun'ichi. AU - Asakawa, Yoshinori. AU - Liu, Ji-Kai. PY - 2018 SN - 3319935054 3319935062 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Chemistry, Organic. KW - Natural products KW - Biotechnology. KW - Pharmaceutical technology. KW - Biochemistry. KW - Organic Chemistry. KW - Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology. KW - Medicinal Chemistry. KW - Biological chemistry KW - Chemical composition of organisms KW - Organisms KW - Physiological chemistry KW - Biology KW - Chemistry KW - Medical sciences KW - Pharmaceutical laboratory techniques KW - Pharmaceutical laboratory technology KW - Technology, Pharmaceutical KW - Technology KW - Organic chemistry KW - Composition KW - Organic chemistry. KW - Medicinal chemistry. KW - Chemistry, Medical and pharmaceutical KW - Chemistry, Pharmaceutical KW - Drug chemistry KW - Drugs KW - Medical chemistry KW - Medicinal chemistry KW - Pharmacochemistry KW - Pharmaceutical chemistry. KW - Pharmaceutics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33060121 AB - The first review describes examples of very promising compounds discovered from plants acquired from Africa, Southeast Asia, the Americas, and the Caribbean region with potential anticancer activity. These include plant secondary metabolites of the diphyllin lignan, penta[b]benzofuran, triterpenoid, and tropane alkaloid types. The second review presents 40 more erythrinan alkaloids, which were either new or were missed out in the last major reviews, bringing to a total of 154 known erythrinan alkaloids known to date. The reported pharmacological activities of the new and known alkaloids showed a greater bias towards central nervous system and related activities. Other prominent activities reported were antifeedant or insecticidal, cytotoxicity/antitumor/anticancer/estrogenic, antiprotozoal, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, antifungal and antiviral activities. ER -