Pharmacologists have high hopes for plant found in Kyrgyzstan
Russian and Chinese scientists have discovered in Eranthis longistipitata, a flowering plant from Kyrgyzstan, a set of several molecules with powerful antioxidant and antitumor properties. Article about the study was published in IJMS journal.
According to the Russian Science Foundation, scientists from the Tomsk State University, the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute, the K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology and the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have studied the bioactive substances of the Eranthis longistipitata. Coumarins and furochromones were found in its leaves — compounds that have antioxidant, anticancer and other beneficial effects, which may become the basis for multidirectional drugs in the future.
It is noted that unlike other groups of compounds that are often found in the plant world and are quite well studied, chromones and coumarins have a limited distribution and are interesting for pharmacology.
«For example, coumarins from Eranthis longistipitata show antioxidant and antitumor activity,» Andrei Ernst, a senior researcher at the Tomsk State University, said.
Eranthis longistipitata is an herbaceous flowering plant that grows in the steppes of Kyrgyzstan and belongs to the buttercup family.
