There remains a critical need for more effective therapies for the treatment of late-stage and metastatic prostate cancers. Three Texas native plants yielded three new and three known compounds with antiproliferative and cytotoxic activities against prostate cancer cells with IC50 values in the
BACKGROUND
Cancer is a major health problem and exploiting natural products have been one of the most successful methods to combat this disease. Verbesina encelioides is a notorious weed with various pharmacological properties. The aim of the present investigation was to screen the anticancer
The anti-inflammatory and antiproliferative activities of 4β-cinnamoyloxy,1β,3α-dihydroxyeudesm-7,8-ene (1) and of three derivatives, namely diacetate (2), hydrogenate (3) and diacetate hydrogenate (4) were evaluated. All derivatives exert an anti-inflammatory effect significantly lower than that
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