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Cyanus montanus
The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Cyanus montanus. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.
Accepted name in source: Cyanus montanus (L.) Hill
Also recorded as
Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.
Regulatory presence
No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.
What the records describe
Constituents measured
- Arctiin1
- Indole alkaloids1
- Lignans1
- Moschamine1
- Polyacetylene derivatives1
Plant parts
- Seed3
- Fruit unspecified1
- Live plants1
Preparations
- Solvent extraction4
Recorded constituents
What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.
| Substance | Plant part | Preparation | Concentration | Analytical method | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arctiin | Fruit unspecified | — | — | GC-MS | Resolve DOI |
| Indole alkaloids | Seed | Solvent extraction | — | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) | Resolve DOI |
| Lignans | Seed | Solvent extraction | — | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) | Resolve DOI |
| Moschamine | Seed | Solvent extraction | — | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) | Resolve DOI |
| Polyacetylene derivatives | Live plants | Solvent extraction | — | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) | No resolvable identifier |
Cited sources
The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.
- Shoeb, Mohammad., MacManus, Stephen M., Jaspars, Marcel., Trevidu, Jioji., Nahar, Lutfun., Kong-Thoo-Lin, Paul., Sarker, Satyajit D. Montamine, a unique dimeric indole alkaloid, from the seeds of Centaurea montana (Asteraceae), and its in vitro cytotoxic activity against the CaCo2 colon cancer cells. TETRAHEDRON, 2006, vol. 62, no. 48, p. 11172-11177. DOI
- Boldizsar, L., Fuezfai, Zs., Toth, F., Sedlak, E., Borsodi, L., Molnar-Perl, I. Mass fragmentation study of the trimethylsilyl derivatives of arctiin, matairesinoside, arctigenin, phylligenin, matairesinol, pinoresinol and methylarctigenin: Their gas and liquid chromatographic analysis in plant extracts. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A, 2010, vol. 1217, no. 10, p. 1674-1682. DOI
- Christensen, Lars P., Lam, Joergen. Acetylenes and other constituents from Centaurea species. Phytochemistry, 1991, p. 3289-3292.
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