High impact information on Centaurium

• Cinnamic acid is a precursor of benzoic acids in cell cultures of Hypericum androsaemum L. but not in cell cultures of Centaurium erythraea RAFN [1].
• These biosynthetic steps, leading to the formation of 2,3',4,6-tetrahydroxybenzophenone, represent an alternative pathway to that recently proposed for cell cultures of Centaurium erythraea [Peters et al., Planta (1997) in press] [2].
• Benzophenone synthase from cultured cells of Centaurium erythraea [3].
• Anticomplement and antioxidant activities of new acetylated flavonoid glycosides from Centaurium spicatum [4].
• Two methoxylated xanthone derivatives, eustomin and demethyleustomin, were isolated from the aerial parts of Centaurium erythraea Rafn [5].

Associations of Centaurium with chemical compounds

• Instead of C-glycosylflavones, the occurrence of flavonol glycosides in this species as well as in three other genera of the Gentianaceae: Centaurium, Coutoubea and Eustoma, is in agreement with the grouping of these four genera in the subtribe Chlorae of the Gentianeae [6].
• Antioxidant activity of Centaurium erythraea infusion evidenced by its superoxide radical scavenging and xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity [7].
• The methanol extract of the leaves of Centaurium erythraea L [8].
• Bioactivity of gentiopicroside from the aerial parts of Centaurium erythraea [9].
• Hepatoprotective activity of Centaurium erythraea on acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity in rats [8].

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