Siegeskaurolic acid
Siegeskaurolic acid is an orally active anti-inflammatory agent. Siegeskaurolic acid inhibits the productions of nitric oxide (NO), prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and the activationon of nuclear factor-kappaB .
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- CAS No.: 52645-97-3
- Formula: C20H32O3
- Molecular Weight:320.47
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Storage:
Please store the product under the recommended conditions in the Certificate of Analysis.
Biological Activity
Description
Chemical Information
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CAS No. 52645-97-3
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Molecular Weight 320.47
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Formula C20H32O3
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SMILES
C[C@]1(CCC2)[C@@]3([H])[C@@](C[C@H]4CO)(CC[C@]1([H])[C@]2(C)C(O)=O)C[C@H]4CC3
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Structure Classification
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Shipping
Room temperature in continental US; may vary elsewhere.
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Storage
Please store the product under the recommended conditions in the Certificate of Analysis.
Protocols
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Research Protocol for Inflammation-related Diseases
The NLRP3 inflammasome is a cytosolic innate immune signaling platform that integrates priming signals and danger-signal activation to promote caspase-1 activation, maturation of IL-1β and IL-18, and gasdermin D-mediated pyroptotic cell death. The core experimental logic is to determine whether inflammatory disease phenotypes are driven by increased NLRP3 expression, ASC-containing inflammasome assembly, caspase-1 cleavage, GSDMD cleavage, and extracellular release of IL-1β/IL-18 rather than by nonspecific cell injury alone. The pathway is strongly linked to inflammation-related disease phenotypes because monosodium urate crystals activate NALP3/NLRP3 inflammasome signaling in gout-like crystal inflammation, cholesterol crystals activate NLRP3 inflammasomes in atherogenesis models, and DSS-induced intestinal inflammation has been reported to involve NLRP3 inflammasome activity. However, experimental colitis studies also show context-dependent protective effects of NLRP3 inflammasome co
Purity & Documentation
References
[1]. Park HJ, et al. Anti-inflammatory activities of ent-16alphaH,17-hydroxy-kauran-19-oic acid isolated from the roots of Siegesbeckia pubescens are due to the inhibition of iNOS and COX-2 expression in RAW 264.7 macrophages via NF-kappaB inactivation. Eur J Pharmacol. 2007;558(1-3):185-193. [Content Brief]
Calculators
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