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Objective: To investigate the chemical constituents from the rhizomes of Cibotium barometz. Methods: Macroporous adsorption resin, column chromatography, and preparative HPLC were carried out to isolate and purify the chemical compounds in the 50% ethanol extracts from the rhizomes of C. barometz, and their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical analyses. The activities of compounds 1 and 2 were tested on in vitro assays of anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, neuro-protection, anti-diabetes, estrogen receptor agonism, and estrogen receptor antagonism. Results: Nine compounds were isolated and identified as protocatechuic acid-4-O-(6'-O-protocatechuoyl)-β-D-pyranoglucoside (1), resveratrol (2), p-hydroxycinnamic acid (3), p-hydroxycinnamic aldehyde (4), C-veratroylglycol (5), 4-methyl-1,2-dihydroxybenzene (6), protocatechualdehyde (7), p-hydroxybenzoic acid (8), and caffeic acid (9). Compound 1 showed anti-inflammatory activity at the concentration of 10, 1, and 0.1 μmol/L with inhibition rates of 75.3%, 72.0%, and 58.0% to NO release of BAW cells, respectively, and exhibited promising hepatoprotective activity against APAP-induced acute liver damage of HepG 2 cells in vitro as effective as bicyclol. Compound 2 showed anti-inflammatory activity at the concentration of 1 μmol/L with inhabition rate of 50.0%. There were no activity on other assays, such as anti-tumor, estrogen receptor agonism, and estrogen receptor antagonism. Conclusion: Compound 1 is a new compound named biprotocatechuicoside with promising anti-inflammatory and hepatoprotective activity, and compounds 2-5 are isolated from the plants of Cibotium Kaulf. for the first time.
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A reasonable and practicable quality standard was developed for mori liquid extract from different sources by TLC, HPLC and fingerprint technology. In TLC method, the compounds were separated on polyamide film using glacial acetic acid-water (1: 3) as mobile phase at a UV wavelength of 365 nm. All qualified samples had the spots of the same color as the control herb and substance. The RP-HPLC method was used to determine the content of mulberroside A with mobile phase of methanol-water (25: 75) at a wave-length of 326 nm. The mulberroside A was in good linear with a regression equation of Y = 46.965X (r = 0.999 6) in the range of 4.6 - 228 mg x L(-1). In 14 batches of samples, the mulberroside A in 4 batches of them was less than 0.5 g x L(-1), and was more than 2.0 g x L(-1) in the other batches. It was suggested that the content limit of mulberroside A should be no less than 1.5 g x L(-1). The HPLC fingerprints were evaluated by the similarities. It has found that the similarities of different mori liquid extracts were very low and the chemical diversity of mori cortex was the major factor of similarity. Moreover, the process impact was minimal. Thus the fingerprint was not included in this quality standard.