Feng-Jiao Tang , Wei Wei , Bang-Yong Wang , Wei Zou , Qin-Gang Tan
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Abstract
A new phenylpropanoid zanitether (1), along with 22 known compounds (2−23), was isolated and characterized from the roots of Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb.) DC. Anti-inflammatory evaluation revealed that compounds 1 and 6 dose-dependently suppressed nitric oxide (NO) release in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages. Molecular docking analysis of 1 and 6 against the key target inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) revealed favorable binding interactions at the enzyme’s active site, supporting their potential as anti-inflammatory agents.
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Phytochemistry Letters invites rapid communications on all aspects of natural product research including:
• Structural elucidation of natural products
• Analytical evaluation of herbal medicines
• Clinical efficacy, safety and pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines
• Natural product biosynthesis
• Natural product synthesis and chemical modification
• Natural product metabolism
• Chemical ecology
• Biotechnology
• Bioassay-guided isolation
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmacology of natural products
• Metabolomics
• Ethnobotany and traditional usage
• Genetics of natural products
Manuscripts that detail the isolation of just one new compound are not substantial enough to be sent out of review and are out of scope. Furthermore, where pharmacology has been performed on one new compound to increase the amount of novel data, the pharmacology must be substantial and/or related to the medicinal use of the producing organism.