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Review
. 2022 Apr;36(4):1459-1506.
doi: 10.1002/ptr.7359. Epub 2022 Feb 28.

Antiinflammatory activity of natural triterpenes-An overview from 2006 to 2021

Rodrigo de Souza Miranda  1 , Bárbara da Silva Mascarenhas de Jesus  1 , Sandra Regina da Silva Luiz  2 , Cristina Borges Viana  1 , Camila Rodrigues Adão Malafaia  3 , Fabiana de Souza Figueiredo  1 , Tatiane Dos Santos Conceição Carvalho  1 , Matheus Lopes Silva  4 , Vinicius Silva Londero  5 , Thais Alves da Costa-Silva  4 , João Henrique Ghilardi Lago  4 , Roberto Carlos Campos Martins  1
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Review

Antiinflammatory activity of natural triterpenes-An overview from 2006 to 2021

Rodrigo de Souza Miranda et al. Phytother Res. 2022 Apr.

Abstract

Terpenes are one of the most abundant classes of secondary metabolites produced by plants and can be divided based on the number of isoprene units (C5 ) in monoterpenes (2 units-C10 ), sesquiterpenes (3 units-C15 ), diterpenes (4 units-C20 ), triterpenes (6 units-C30 ), etc. Chemically, triterpenes are classified based on their structural skeleton including lanostanes, euphanes, cycloartanes, ursanes, oleananes, lupanes, tirucallanes, cucurbitanes, dammaranes, baccharanes, friedelanes, hopanes, serratanes etc. Additionally, glycosylated (saponins) or highly oxidated/degraded (limonoids) triterpenes could be found in nature. The antiinflammatory effect and action as immunomodulators of these secondary metabolites have been demonstrated in different studies. This review reports an overview of articles published in the last 15 years (from 2006 to 2021 using PubMed and SciFinder database) describing the antiinflammatory effects of different triterpenes with their presumed mechanism of action, suggesting that triterpenes could be appointed as natural products with future pharmaceutical applicability.

Keywords: antiinflammatory activity; natural products; triterpenes.

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