1. The Dioscorea genus: a review of bioactive steroid saponins

   • Marc Sautour
   • Anne-Claire Mitaine-Offer
   • Marie-Aleth Lacaille-Dubois

   Review 18 January 2007 Pages: 91 - 101

   

2. Pharmacological activities of crocin in saffron

   • Shinji Soeda
   • Takashi Ochiai
   • Yukihiro Shoyama

   Review 16 January 2007 Pages: 102 - 111

   

3. Search for bioactive constituents from several medicinal foods: hepatoprotective, antidiabetic, and antiallergic activities

   • Toshio Morikawa

   Review 23 November 2006 Pages: 112 - 126

   

4. The effect of planting depth, disbudding, and root pruning on root weight and aconite alkaloid content of the tuberous root of aconite

   • Kazuhiro Matsuyama
   • Sanae Tatsukawa
   • Masayuki Mikage

   Original Paper 26 September 2006 Pages: 127 - 130

   

5. Anticancer properties of panduratin A isolated from Boesenbergia pandurata (Zingiberaceae)

   • Chandra Kirana
   • Graham Peter Jones
   • Graeme Howie McIntosh

   Original Paper 28 October 2006 Pages: 131 - 137

   

6. Linckosides M–Q: neuritogenic steroid glycosides from the Okinawan starfish Linckia laevigata

   • Chunguang Han
   • Jianhua Qi
   • Makoto Ojika

   Original Paper 06 December 2006 Pages: 138 - 145

   

7. Inhibitory effects of compounds from Anemarrhenae Rhizoma on α-glucosidase and aldose reductase and its contents by drying conditions

   • Hiroyuki Ichiki
   • Osami Takeda
   • Hiroshi Sasaki

   Original Paper 29 November 2006 Pages: 146 - 153

   

8. Antiproliferative potential of sarcophine and its semisynthetic sulfur-containing derivatives against human mammary carcinoma cell lines

   • Jamal M. Arif
   • Swapnali S. Sawant
   • Fahad Al-Khodairy

   Original Paper 06 December 2006 Pages: 154 - 158

   

9. Variation in growth and diterpene lactones among field-cultivated Andrographis paniculata

   • Sompop Prathanturarug
   • Noppamas Soonthornchareonnon
   • Promjit Saralamp

   Original Paper 12 January 2007 Pages: 159 - 163

   

10. Anti-colon cancer potential of phenolic compounds from the aerial parts of Centaurea gigantea (Asteraceae)

    • Mohammad Shoeb
    • Marcel Jaspars
    • Satyajit D. Sarker

    Original Paper 07 December 2006 Pages: 164 - 169

    

11. Purification and characterization of abelesculin, a novel ribosome-inactivating protein from the mature seeds of Abelmoschus esculentus

    • Toshiya Kondo
    • Takafumi Yoshikawa

    Original Paper 25 January 2007 Pages: 170 - 174

    

12. CYP3A4 inhibitors isolated from a marine derived fungus Penicillium species

    • Ahmed Atef El-Beih
    • Hikaru Kato
    • Tomihisa Ohta

    Note 11 November 2006 Pages: 175 - 177

    

13. Eastern blotting and use of anti-saikosaponin a monoclonal antibodies for detection of saikosaponins

    • Shu-hang Zhu
    • Osamu Morinaga
    • Hiroyuki Tanaka

    Note 10 November 2006 Pages: 178 - 183

    

14. Inhibitory effects of compounds isolated from fruit of Juglans mandshurica on pancreatic lipase

    • Likun Han
    • Wei Li
    • Kazuo Koike

    Note 23 November 2006 Pages: 184 - 186

    

15. Essential oils of petal, leaf and stem of the antimalarial plant Artemisia annua

    • Divya Goel
    • Vijender Singh
    • Sushil Kumar

    Note 23 November 2006 Pages: 187 - 191

16. New heteroyohimbine-type oxindole alkaloid from the leaves of Thai Mitragyna hirsuta

    • Mariko Kitajima
    • Terumi Nakayama
    • Hiromitsu Takayama

    Note 20 January 2007 Pages: 192 - 195

    

17. Comparative cytotoxicity of 2,3,9-trimethoxypterocarpan in leukemia cell lines (HL-60, Jurkat, Molt-4, and K562) and human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

    • Gardenia C. G. Militão
    • Daniel P. Bezerra
    • Letícia V. Costa-Lotufo

    Note 02 December 2006 Pages: 196 - 199

    

18. Flavonoid metabolites in urine after oral administration of aqueous extract of Persea americana to rats

    • Mbang A. Owolabi
    • Herbert A. B. Coker
    • Smith I. Jaja

    Note 30 January 2007 Pages: 200 - 204

    

19. A new ceramide from Ramaria botrytis (Pers.) Ricken

    • Yasunori Yaoita
    • Yuu Satoh
    • Masao Kikuchi

    Note 17 January 2007 Pages: 205 - 207

    

20. Total synthesis and full NMR assignment of ourouparine, a yohimbane-type indole alkaloid isolated from Gelsemium sempervirens

    • Noriyuki Kogure
    • Ayumi Someya
    • Hiromitsu Takayama

    Note 11 January 2007 Pages: 208 - 212

    

21. Seasonal variation in the content of a febrifugine and isofebrifugine alkaloid mixture in aerial parts of Hydrangea macrophylla var. Otaksa, with special reference to its antimalarial activity

    • Akira Ishih
    • Toshio Miyase
    • Mamoru Terada

    Note 23 December 2006 Pages: 213 - 216

    

22. Cultivation and preparation of Lithospermum roots quantification of total pigment in slender lateral roots

    • Haruo Sekizaki
    • Naotoshi Yoshida
    • Yukari Noguchi

    Note 09 January 2007 Pages: 217 - 219

    

23. Studies on the chemical constituents of green leaves of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv.

    • Chika Takamura
    • Tetsuya Hirata
    • Toshihiro Nohara

    Natural Medicine Note 09 December 2006 Pages: 220 - 221

    

24. Studies of the chemical constituents of the flower buds of Magnolia kobus and M. salicifolia

    • Jun Li
    • Makoto Tanaka
    • Toshihiro Nohara

    Natural Medicine Note 09 December 2006 Pages: 222 - 223

25. The constituents of the roots of Ampelopsis japonica

    • Ik Hwi Kim
    • Michiyo Umezawa
    • Yukihiro Goda

    Natural Medicine Note 19 December 2006 Pages: 224 - 225

26. Secoiridoid glycosides from the leaves of Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata

    • Hitomi Sakai
    • Rie Kakuda
    • Masao Kikuchi

    Natural Medicine Note 17 January 2007 Pages: 226 - 228

    

27. Prenylated flavonoids and related compounds of the Indonesian Artocarpus (Moraceae)

    • Euis H. Hakim
    • Sjamsul A. Achmad
    • Emilio L. Ghisalberti

    Erratum 02 February 2007 Pages: 229 - 229