Background Chronic diseases are a major cause of mortality worldwide, and despite the
recent development in treatment modalities, synthetic drugs have continued to show toxic …

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 …

Steroids are important biodynamic agents. Their affinities for various nuclear receptors have
been an interesting feature to utilize them for drug development particularly for receptor …

An important and surprising finding that the acetalization and ketalization of aldehydes and
ketones with alcohols, respectively, proceed smoothly in the presence of 0.1 mol% acid …

The use of medicinal plants by nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and pharmaceutical industries
is gaining more attention around the globe. Dioscorea bulbifera L.(Family: Dioscoreaceae) …

Phytochemicals found in foods and spices are progressively gaining popularity over
conventional synthetic drugs mainly because they act via multiple molecular targets that …

To endure respective research for cancer via common food ingredients has become more
prominent with preferably minuscule toxicity. Spices are emerging as a new source of …

Diosgenin, a promising anticancer steroidal sapogenin, was isolated from Dioscorea
deltoidea. Keeping its stereochemistry rich architecture intact, a scheme for the synthesis of …

Chemical studies on Ibervillea sonorae (S. Watson) Greene root led to isolation and
chemical characterization of diverse cucurbitacin triterpenoid compounds such as kinoin A …

Diosgenin has been modified to furostane derivatives after opening the F-spiroacetal ring.
The aldehyde group at C26 in derivative 8 was unexpectedly transformed to the ketone 9 …