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Medicinal Plant Centipeda Minima: A Resource of Bioactive Compounds

Journal

MINI-REVIEWS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 273-287

Publisher

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1389557520666201021143257

Keywords

Asteraceae; Centipeda minima; sesquiterpene lactones; secondary metabolites; phytochemistry; pharmacology

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  1. Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology [QTRU 02.04/20-21]

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Centipeda minima, a medicinal plant used for treating whooping cough, nasal allergy, malaria, and asthma, has more than a hundred isolated compounds with various biological activities such as anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, anti-allergy, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and hepatoprotective properties. The use of C. minima plant extracts and isolated compounds for drug development appears to be a promising strategy due to its bioactive results, especially in anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory effects.
Background: Centipeda minima (the family Asteraceae) is an annual herbaceous plant native to the tropical regions, especially in eastern tropical Asia. C. minima is well-known in the list of medicinal plants with capacities in treatment of whooping cough, nasal allergy, malaria, and asthma. More than sixty reports on phytochemical and pharmacological aspects of this plant are now available, but a supportive review is insufficient. Objective: The current review aims to make a compilation of almost all of the isolated compounds from the title plant, together with their pharmacological activities. Methodology: Centipeda minima is a meaningful keyword to search for previous references, while the reliable databases, such as Sci-Finder, Google Scholar, Pub Med, Science Direct, the Web of Science, Scopus, Bentham science, Taylor Francis, Springer, IOP Science were utilized at most. Conclusion: More than one hundred secondary metabolites, classifying as terpenoids, flavonoids, mono-phenols, fatty acids, amides, and other types, were isolated from this plant. Among them, sesquiterpene lactones are dominant in either C. minima species or numerous plants of genus Centipede:. These phytochemical groups also possessed various biological results like anti-cancer, anti-bacteria, anti-allergy, anti-virus, anti-inflammation, and hepatoprotective activities. With many kinds of bioactive results such as anti-cancer and anti-inflammation, the use of C. minima plant extracts and isolated compounds for drug development seems to be a futuristic strategy.

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