The struggle between humans and pathogens has taken and is continuing to take countless
lives every year. As the misusage of conventional antibiotics increases, the complexity …

Lamiaceae is among the largest families of flowering plants with about 250 genera and over
7,000 species distributed around the world. It is considered as the important source of …

A total of 175 abietane quinone diterpenes with ortho-or para-quinone chromophore,
namely 11, 12-ortho-quinone abietane, 11, 14-para-quinone abietane, seco-abietane and …

A surface extract of the aerial parts of Salvia chamaedryoides afforded 13 diterpenes (1–13),
with seven compounds (1, 3, 4, 7–9, 12) described for the first time. The structures of the new …

Background: Several Salvia species are indigenous to Jordan and are widely used as
beverages and spices and for their medicinal properties. The objective of the study was to …

Background: The antiproliferative activity of Salvia species grown in Jordan has not been
fully evaluated yet. The aim of this work was to study the antiproliferative activity of crude …

Ursolic acid (UA), a pentacyclic triterpenoid acid found in many medicinal plants and
aromas, is known for its antibacterial effects against multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Gram …

Diterpenoids are a class of compounds that derive from the condensation of four isoprene
units that leads to a wide variety of complex chemical structures, including acyclic bi-, tri-and …

In this study, demethylfruticuline A (dfA) and fruticuline A (fA), two quinones representing the
major diterpenoid components of the exudate produced by the aerial parts of Salvia …

Plant secondary metabolites have great applications in the nutritional and cosmetic aspects
of human health. Terpenes, and in particular bioactive diterpenoids, represent an important …