Diosgenin, a phytosteroid sapogenin, is the product of hydrolysis by acids, strong bases, or enzymes of saponins, extracted from the tubers of Dioscorea...

yellow yam, colic root, and rheumatism root. Dioscorea villosa contains diosgenin, which despite claims is not a phytoestrogen and does not interact with...

sapogenin called diosgenin which had previously been found in Japanese yams (Dioscorea tokoro). Marker showed that both sarsasapogenin and diosgenin could be...

steroids that are found in plants. Examples include digoxin, digitoxin, diosgenin, and guggulsterone, as well as phytosterols like β-sitosterol and other...

sapogenin, diosgenin. It is a source of diosgenin, which is used to prepare synthetic hormones such as progesterone and cortisone. Diosgenin extracted...

The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged...

nipponica, are a source for the extraction of diosgenin, a sapogenin steroid. The extracted diosgenin is used for the commercial synthesis of cortisone...

cheaper and more convenient starting material, diosgenin from wild Mexican yams. His conversion of diosgenin into progesterone by a four-step process now...

Mexico. It contains a steroid called diosgenin that is taken from the plant and is converted into progesterone. Diosgenin and progesterone are also found in...

from a variety of steroidal sapogenins. Industrially useful sources are diosgenin in mexican yams and solasodine from certain nightshades. These two sapogenins...

northeastern Mexico south to Panama. It is notable for its production of diosgenin, which is a precursor for the synthesis of hormones such as progesterone...

limited to treating a range of medical ailments. Costus afer is high in diosgenin. Costus afer has a wide native distribution spanning North East Africa...

the tuber "Barbasco" (Dioscorea composita) which has a high content of diosgenin, revolutionizing the production of synthetic hormones in the 1950s and...

Shirazi gave a detailed evaluation of the medical properties of chinaroot. Diosgenin, a steroidal sapogenin, is reported from S. menispermoidea. Other active...

impurities by Dr. Chittiboyina's group suggested that it is synthesized from diosgenin. It acts as a partial agonist at androgen receptors and has been sold...

starting point for the semisynthesis of particular steroid hormones. Diosgenin and hecogenin are other examples of sapogenins. Roland Hardman, Ezekiel...

scale production of steroid hormones, it proved more convenient to use diosgenin (extracted from the Mexican yam Dioscorea mexicana) as the starting material...

root vegetable. It has been cultivated in China for the production of diosgenin, an important pharmaceutical intermediate for the synthesis of steroid...

wild in Florida, can be poisonous. These varieties contain the steroid diosgenin, which is a principal material used in the manufacture of a number of...

fever, smallpox and as a purgative. The crêpe ginger is also a source of diosgenin, a compound used for the commercial production of various steroids, such...

the tuber "Barbasco" (Dioscorea composita) which has a high content of diosgenin, revolutionizing the production of synthetic hormones in the 1950s and...

scientists found that the roots of wild yams contained diosgenin which is a plant-based estrogen; diosgenin is hypothesized to aid in chemical defense against...

such as progesterone; for example in Dioscorea wild yam the sapogenin diosgenin, in the form of its glycoside dioscin. The ginsenosides are triterpene...

to south-central China and mainland Southeast Asia. Its tubers contain diosgenin and are harvested by local peoples as a treatment for a variety of conditions...

George Rosenkranz and Carl Djerassi went on to synthesize cortisone from diosgenin, the same phytosteroid contained in Mexican yams used to synthesize progesterone...

Mexico to northern Central America. It is grown commercially for its diosgenin content. "Dioscorea floribunda M.Martens & Galeotti". Plants of the World...

acetate 20α-Dihydroprogesterone 20β-Dihydroprogesterone Dimepregnen Diosgenin P1-185 Progesterone Progesterone 3-acetyl enol ether Quingestrone Retroprogesterone...

moist soil. Yam (vegetable) Dioscorea oppositifolia Dioscorea villosa Diosgenin List of ineffective cancer treatments Tremella fuciformis Citations "Chinese...

steroidal saponins such as borassoside E and upon hydrolysis yield >2.5% diosgenin which is used for the preparation of steroidal and sex hormones (Shivam...

triclocarban, triclosan) Phytosteroids (e.g., digitoxin (digitalis), diosgenin, guggulsterone) Phytosterols (e.g., β-sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol)...