title: Terpenoids from Guarea rhophalocarpa.
abstract: Four new terpenes including, two sandaracopimaradiene diterpenoids, ent-8(14),15-sandaracopimaradiene-2alpha,18-diol, and ent8(14),15-sandaracopimaradiene-2beta,18-diol, and two lanostane triterpenoids, 23-hydroxy-5alpha-lanosta 7,9(11),24-triene-3-one, and 5alpha-lanosta-7,9(11),24-triene-3alpha,23-diol, were isolated from the methanolic extract prepared from the leaves of G. rhopalocarpa together with the known steroid stigmasterol and the coumarin, scopoletin. The isolates showed weak antiprotozoal activity against Leishmania donovani promastigotes, and Trypanosoma brucei brucei blood stream trypomastigotes, and were devoid of interesting activity towards Plasmodium falciparum. The isolates did not show significant cytotoxic activity against KB cells.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK. mcamacho@cua.ulsop.ac.uk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: del Rayo Camacho
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Phillipson
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Croft
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Kirby
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Warhurst
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Solis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D002460:Cell Line; D007893:Leishmania donovani / Q000187:drug effects; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000187:drug effects; D019685:Rosales / Q000737:chemistry*; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013729:Terpenes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology; D014346:Trypanosoma brucei brucei / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents; D013729:Terpenes