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Medicinal Flowers. XXIV. Chemical Structures and Hepatoprotective Effects of Constituents from Flowers of Hedychium coronarium
Seikou NakamuraYoshie OkazakiKiyofumi NinomiyaToshio MorikawaHisashi MatsudaMasayuki Yoshikawa
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2008 Volume 56 Issue 12 Pages 1704-1709

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The 80% aqueous acetone extract from the flowers of Hedychium coronarium was found to show a protective effect on D-galactosamine-induced cytotoxicity in primary cultured mouse hepatocytes. On the other hand, two new labdane-type diterpene glycosides, coronalactosides I (1) and II (2), and a new labdane-type trinorditerpene, coronadiene (3), were isolated together with 8 known compounds from the extracts, which were obtained with chloroform and 80% aqueous acetone from the flowers of H. coronarium. The structures of new constituents were elucidated on the basis of chemical and physicochemical evidence. In addition, the principal constituents, coronaririn C and 15-hydroxylabda-8(17),11,13-trien-16,15-olide, displayed hepatoprotective effects, which were stronger than that of the hepatoprotective agent, silybin.

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