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BCN4327 |
Ursolic acid
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Ursolic acid is a potential PPARγagonist, which has anti-tumor, chemopreventive, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antidepressant-like, antimicrobial activities, and anti-asthmatic effects. Ursolic acid also has antihyperlipidemic, hypoglycemic and direct cardiac effect, its antihypertensive effect is attributed to its potent diuretic-natriuretic-saluretic activity. Ursolic acid regulates NF-κB, VEGF, COX-2, Nrf2, ARE, IL-5, IL-13, IL-17and MAPK signaling pathways. |
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BCN4367 |
Visnagin
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Visnagin has acute hypotensive, anti-inflammatory, and neuroprotective effects, it protects against doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy through modulation of mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase. Visnagin can relax aortae previously contracted by noradrenaline, and weakly inhibit the hydrolytic activity of the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) isozymes (PDE5, PDE4, PDE3, cyclic GMP activated PDE2 and PDE1). |
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BCN4385 |
Rutaecarpine
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Rutaecarpine is an inhibitor of COX-2 with an IC50 value of 0.28 μM, and is also a potent inhibitor of CYP1A2. Rutaecarpine has anti-atherosclerosis, immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory, gastroprotective, vasorelaxing, antihypertensive and anti-platelet effects. Rutaecarpine has positive inotropic and chronotropic effects on the guinea-pig isolated right atria, possible involvement of vanilloid receptors. Rutaecarpine may be useful in the prevention of ultraviolet A-induced photoaging, it inhibits ultraviolet A-induced reactive oxygen species generation, resulting in the enhanced expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 in human skin cells. |
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BCN4979 |
Rhynchophylline
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Rhynchophylline, a noncompetitive antagonist of the NMDA receptor, which has anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertension, cardiacprotective and neuroprotective activities. Rhynchophylline can markedly inhibit rabbit platelet aggregation induced by ADP or thrombin possibly by depressing the inflow of Ca2+ and the rise of the cytoplasmic free calcium level in platelet.Rhynchophylline can reduce the systolic blood pressure (SBP) of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) significantly, decrease plasma Ang II, ADMA, and AT1R levels, and promote serum NO and NOS levels, which has the protection of vascular endothelial function. |
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BCN4984 |
Orientin
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Orientin has various activities including anti-oxidant, anti-aging, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammation, vasodilatation and cardioprotective, antiadipogenesis, antinociceptive, radiation protective, neuroprotective, and antidepressant-like effects. Orientin protects H9c2 cardio-mytocytes against I/R-induced apoptosis by modulating the mPTP opening, and this role of orientin may involve the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway; it also can decrease C/EBPα and PPARγ protein expression level in 3T3-L1 cells. |
