Journal
NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 16, Pages 1830-1833Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2015.1065493
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Anti-inflammatory; antioxidant; anti-angiogenic; diosgenin; C. speciosus
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- Y.A. Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medical Applications
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Costus speciosus is an important medicinal plant widely used in several indigenous medicinal formulations. The present study was conducted to evaluate the in vitro anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antiangiogenic activities of diosgenin isolated from C. speciosus. The diosgenin was isolated from C. speciosus by HPTLC and its biological activities were studied by different protocols. The results demonstrated that LPS stimulated TNF- generation in RAW 264.7 macrophage culture supernatant up to 3.7-fold of the control and that sample treatment (50g/mL) resulted in a highly significant inhibitory effect on LPS-stimulated TNF- (p<0.01) in a similar manner to methotrexate inhibitory effect. The tested sample possessed an effective antioxidant scavenging affinity against DPPH radicals as compared with the standard antioxidant activity of vitamin C. The results presented here may suggest that diosgenin isolated from C. speciosus possess anticancer, apoptotic and inhibitory effects on cell proliferation. [GRAPHCIS].
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