Steroids are a pivotal class of hormones with a key role in growth modulation and signal
transduction in multicellular organisms. Synthetic steroids are widely used to cure large …

Blood–brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction has been suggested to play an important role in
epilepsy. However, the mechanism mediating the transition from cerebrovascular damage to …

Brassinosteroids are plant hormones whose main function is to stimulate plant growth.
However, they have been studied for their biological applications in humans …

Six new (1, 2, 6, 8, 13, and 20) and twenty previously isolated (3–5, 7, 9–12, 14–19, and 21–
26) steroids featuring thirteen different carbocycle motifs were isolated from the organic …

Cytokinins are adenine-based phytohormones that regulate key processes in plants, such
as cell division and differentiation, root and shoot growth, apical dominance, branching, and …

Brassinolide (BR) plays an important role in physiological and biochemical processes of
plants. The natural resources of Pinellia ternata (P. ternata) were gradually exhausted, while …

Benzimidazoles are frequently used in medicinal chemistry. Their anticancer effect is among
the most prominent biological activities exhibited by this scaffold. Although numerous …

Over the last decades, soft corals have been proven a rich source of biologically active
compounds, featuring a wide range of chemical structures. Herein, we investigated the …

In recent years, it was shown that brassinosteroids (BS) exert their effects not only on plants
but also on animals and man. Eventually, some of these effects allowed considering BS as …

α-Tocopheryl succinate (α-TS) and α-tocopheryloxyacetic acid (α-TEA) are potent inducers
of apoptosis in cancer cells and efficient suppressors of tumors in experimental model …