Disease relevance of Jatropha

• The lambs treated with oil of Jatropha curcas ascorbic acid had significantly (P < 0.05) greater mean daily body weight gains (63.29 g) than the infected untreated control (41.10 g) [1].

High impact information on Jatropha

• A new type of phorbol ester, which has a macrocyclic dicarboxylic acid diester structure, was isolated from the seed oil of Jatropha curcas L [2].
• From the latex of Jatropha curcas L [3].
• Mechanism of the hypotensive effect of tetramethylpyrazine, an amide alkaloid from the stem of Jatropha podagrica [4].
• Multidrug resistance reversal agent from Jatropha elliptica [5].
• As part of an ongoing project to identify plant natural products as resistance-modifying agents, bioassay-guided fractionation of an extract of Jatropha elliptica (Pohl) Muell Arg. led to the isolation of a penta-substituted pyridine, namely 2,6-dimethyl-4-phenyl-pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylic acid diethyl ester (8) [5].

Associations of Jatropha with chemical compounds

• Antibacterial property of tetramethylpyrazine from the stem of Jatropha podagrica [6].
• Solvent partitioning and column chromatography of MeOH root extracts of Jatropha dioica yielded four pure compounds, beta-sitosterol, jatropholone B, a previously unknown diterpene epoxytrione given the trivial name citlalitrione, and riolozatrione [7].
• Hexane, chloroform and methanol extracts of the rootwood and rootbarks of Jatropha podagrica were studied for their antimicrobial activity against 18 organisms [8].
• 1. Jatrophone (JAT), a diterpene isolated from the plant Jatropha elliptica (1-300 microM), caused a concentration-dependent relaxation effect against acetylcholine (Ach)-oxytocin (Ot)- and KCl-induced uterine sustained contraction [9].
• No mutagenicity of five diterpenes isolated from the roots of Jatropha curcas was detected by Ame's test using both TA98 and TA100 tester strains with or without S-9 fraction from livers of rats treated with polychlorinated biphenyl [10].

Gene context of Jatropha

• Three deoxypreussomerins, palmarumycins CP1, JC1 and JC2, have been isolated from a collection of the stems of Jatropha curcas [11].
• Studies on antidiarrhoeal activity of Jatropha curcus root extract in albino mice [12].
• The protein efficiency ratio (PER) for unheated and heated Jatropha meal containing diets was 37 and 86%, respectively, of the casein diet [13].

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