Two new cucurbitacin glucosides, opercurins A and B, from the Brazilian folk medicine "Buchinha" (Luffa operculata)

Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2004 Aug;52(8):1018-20. doi: 10.1248/cpb.52.1018.

Abstract

The structures of two new cucurbitacin glucosides designated opercurins A (1) and B (2), isolated from the fruit of Luffa operculata, have been confirmed by extensive spectroscopic investigation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brazil
  • Cucurbitacins
  • Glucosides / chemistry
  • Glucosides / isolation & purification
  • Glucosides / pharmacology
  • Luffa / chemistry*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Medicine, Traditional*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Triterpenes / chemistry
  • Triterpenes / isolation & purification*
  • Triterpenes / pharmacology

Substances

  • Glucosides
  • Triterpenes
  • opercurin A
  • opercurin B
  • Cucurbitacins