Covering: up to 2012 Steroids, a widespread class of natural organic compounds occurring
in animals, plants and fungi, have shown great therapeutic value for a broad array of …

Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt mankind in the world today. It is one of
the leading causes of death worldwide. Although overall cancer incidence rates in the …

To explore natural-product-based pesticidal candidates and high value-added application of
cholesterol in agriculture, oximinoether derivatives of cholesterol-containing …

The side chain of a compound plays an important role in its biological function. In our
studies, we have found that hydroximinosteroid derivatives with different side chains and …

Steroidal compounds were proven to be efficient drugs against several types of cancer.
Oximes are also chemical structures frequently associated with anticancer activity. The main …

Chemically diverse oxysterols were prepared and evaluated for cytotoxicity, aiming to push
forward potency and selectivity. They were tested against seven cancer (HT-29, HepG2 …

Background: Steroids play an important role in life because they can regulate a variety of
biological processes and have been widely used in medicine namely as antiinflammatory …

Steroids and their derivatives have been the subject of extensive research among
investigators due to their wide range of pharmacological properties, in which steroidal …

This review article presents advances in cholesterol chemistry since 2000. Various
transformations (chemical, enzymatic, electrochemical, etc.) of cholesterol are presented. A …

Plants are rich in steroidal and triterpenoid saponins. Diosgenin is an important sapogenin
obtained from various steroidal saponins and specially from dioscin. It possesses diverse …