Gynostemma

[James Morley]

On 12 Aug 97 at 14:45, Judi duCellier wrote:

> Also, does anyone have any scientific information on the following?
> I found some information on the WWW, but would like to find a
> description of the plant and/or its chemical constituents.
> AMACHAZURA (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) containing Amachazuru saponins

Citations from the Economic Botany Bibliographic Database, Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew.  13 August 1997.

   1.
Chakravarty_HL, 1946
Studies of Indian Cucurbitaceae, with special remarks on distribution & uses of
economic species.   Ind. J. Agric. Sci., XVI, (1) 1946. pp.90
   2.
Takemoto_T et al, 1984
(Studies on the constituents of %% plants. X. The %% constituents of G.
pentaphyllum Makino.) Yakugaku Zasshi 104(9) pp.939-945
   3.
Akihisa_T, Thakur_S, Rosenstein_FU, Matsumoto_T, 1986
Sterols of Cucurbitaceae. Lipids 21(1):39-47
   4.
Li_L, Lau_BHS, 1993
Protection of vascular endothelial cells from hydrogen peroxide-induced
oxidant injury by gypenosides, saponins of Gynostemma pentaphyllum.
Phytother. Res. 7(4): 299-304 (1993)
  5.
Hu_L, Chen_Z, Xie_Y, 1996
New triterpenoid saponins from Gynostemma pentaphyllum.  J. Nat. Prod. 59(12):
1143-1145 (1996).

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