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Clerodane diterpenoids with NGF-potentiating activity from Ptychopetalum olacoides
Wanxia Tang1, Hideaki Hioki, Kenichi Harada
1Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Yamashiro-cho, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan.
Abstract:
Four new clerodane-type diterpenoids, ptychonolide (1), 20-O-methylptychonal acetal (2), and an equilibrium mixture of ptychonal hemiacetal (3) and ptychonal (4), were isolated from the MeOH extract of the bark of a Brazilian plant, Ptychopetalum olacoides. The structure of 1 was elucidated as a clerodane-type diterpenoid on the basis of spectroscopic data, whereas 2 was assigned to an acetal derivative of 1. Compounds 3 and 4 existed as an equilibrium mixture. A mixture of compounds 3 and 4 was found to exhibit neurite outgrowth-promoting activities on NGF-mediated PC12 cells at concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 10.0 microM.
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