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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-4-16
pubmed:abstractText
Using an ethnobotanical approach in combination with in vivo-guided fractionation as a means for lead discovery, cryptolepine was isolated as an antihyperglycemic component of Cryptolepis sanguinolenta. Two syntheses of cryptolepine, including an unambiguous synthesis, are reported. The hydroiodide, hydrochloride, and hydrotrifluoromethanesulfonate (hydrotriflate) salts of cryptolepine were synthesized, and a comparison of their spectral properties and their in vitro activities in a 3T3-L1 glucose transport assay is made. Cryptolepine and its salt forms lower blood glucose in rodent models of type II diabetes. While a number of bioactivities have been reported for cryptolepine, this is the first report that cryptolepine possesses antihyperglycemic properties.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0022-2623
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
41
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
894-901
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9526563-3T3 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Adipose Tissue, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Alkaloids, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Blood Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Eating, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Fructose, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Hypoglycemic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Indole Alkaloids, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Indoles, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Mice, Obese, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Plant Extracts, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Quinolines, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9526563-Rats, Sprague-Dawley
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Ethnobotanical-directed discovery of the antihyperglycemic properties of cryptolepine: its isolation from Cryptolepis sanguinolenta, synthesis, and in vitro and in vivo activities.
pubmed:affiliation
Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, In Vitro