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ReviewNatural products and bioprospecting2019

The Genus Solanum: An Ethnopharmacological, Phytochemical and Biological Properties Review.

Joseph Sakah Kaunda, Ying-Jun Zhang

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Review in Natural products and bioprospecting, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joseph Sakah KaundaState Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650204, People's Republic of China.
Ying-Jun ZhangState Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650204, People's Republic of China. zhangyj@mail.kib.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0295-337X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past 30 years, the genus Solanum has received considerable attention in chemical and biological studies. Solanum is the largest genus in the family Solanaceae, comprising of about 2000 species distributed in the subtropical and tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and parts of Asia, e.g., China, India and Japan. Many of them are economically significant species. Previous phytochemical investigations on Solanum species led to the identification of steroidal saponins, steroidal alkaloids, terpenes, flavonoids, lignans, sterols, phenolic comopunds, coumarins, amongst other compounds. Many species belonging to this genus present huge range of pharmacological activities such as cytotoxicity to different tumors as breast cancer (4T1 and EMT), colorectal cancer (HCT116, HT29, and SW480), and prostate cancer (DU145) cell lines. The biological activities have been attributed to a number of steroidal saponins, steroidal alkaloids and phenols. This review features 65 phytochemically studied species of Solanum between 1990 and 2018, fetched from SciFinder, Pubmed, ScienceDirect, Wikipedia and Baidu, using "Solanum" and the species' names as search terms ("all fields").

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EthnopharmacologyPhytochemistrySolanaceaeSolanumSteroidal saponins and alkaloids

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PMID30868423
PMCPMC6426945

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