摘要:
Five new triterpenoids (1-5), together with two known quassinoids, bruceantin (6) and bruceine A (7), and a known. avonolignan, (-)-hydnocarpin (8), were isolated from the chloroform-soluble subfraction of a methanol extract of the combined twigs, leaves, and in florescence of Brucea javanica collected in Vietnam. The structures of the new compounds 1 - 5 were established on the basis of spectroscopic methods. All isolates were evaluated for cytotoxicity against a small panel of human cancer cell lines. Quassinoids 6 and 7 were found to be highly active against these cell lines. (-)- Hydnocarpin ( 8) showed a potentiating effect when combined with both 6 and 7, during cytotoxicity testing using the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.