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Review Article
Phytochemical
Constituents and Pharmacological Activities
of Plants from the Genus
Adiantum:
A Review
C Pan1, YG Chen1*, XY Ma1,
JH Jiang1, F He1 and Y Zhang2
1Department
of Chemistry, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500,
2School of Pharmacy, Kunming Medical College,
Kunming 650031, China.
For
correspondence:
E-mail:
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+86 871 5941089
Received: 10
February 2011
Revised accepted:
13 September 2011
Tropical
Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, Oct 2011;
10(5): 681-692
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjpr.v10i5.18
Abstract
Adiantum is a genus of ca.
200 species in the family Adiantaceae, distributed
extensively across the world from cool temperate zones
to hot tropical regions. A lot of Adiantum species have
been used in traditional Chinese medicine to cure human
and animal diseases including relief of internal heat or
fever, enhancement of urination, removal of urinary
calculus, and sundry other curative claims. Chemical
studies have shown the presence of various classes of
compounds, the main ones being triterpenoids, flavonoids,
phenyl propanoids, steroids, alicyclic acids, lipids and
long-chain compounds. The extract of this genus as well
as pure compounds isolated from it have been
demonstrated to possess multiple pharmacological
activities such as analgesic, antinociceptive,
anti-implantation, and antimicrobial activities. In this
review, we have addressed the phytochemistry and
pharmacological activities of the Adiantum species in
order to collate existing information on this plant as
well as highlight its multi-activity properties as a
medicinal agent.
Keywords:
Adiantum species,
Adiantaceae, Phytochemical constituents, Pharmacological
activities. |
