Plants including Rhizoma polgonati, Smilax china, and Trigonella foenum-graecum contain
a lot of diosgenin, a steroidal sapogenin. This bioactive phytochemical has shown high …

The quest for a food secure and safe world has led to continuous effort toward improvements
of global food and health systems. While the developed countries seem to have these …

Steroids are important biodynamic agents. Their affinities for various nuclear receptors have
been an interesting feature to utilize them for drug development particularly for receptor …

Dioscin has gained immense popularity as a natural, bioactive steroid saponin, which offers
numerous medical benefits. The growing global incidence of disease‐associated morbidity …

Dioscin, one natural product, has active effect against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
(NAFLD) in our previous work. However, the pharmacological data are insufficient and the …

Dioscin is a typical saponin with multiple pharmacological activities. The past few years
have seen an emerging interest in and growing research on this pleiotropic saponin. Here …

Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt mankind in the world today. It is one of
the leading causes of death worldwide. Although overall cancer incidence rates in the …

Dioscin, a natural product obtained from medicinal plants shows lipid-lowering, anti-cancer
and hepatoprotective effects. However, the effect of it on glioblastoma is unclear. In this …

Our previous study has revealed that dioscin, a compound with anti-inflammatory, lipid-
lowering, anticancer and hepatoprotective effects, may induce autophagy in hepatoma cells …

This review is the sixth update of the original article published in 1999 on the application of
MALDI mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings …