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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Ferns form an important part of the human diet. Young fern fiddleheads are mostly consumed as vegetables, while the rhizomes are often extracted for starch. These edible ferns are also often employed in traditional medicine, where all parts of the plant are used, mostly to prepare extracts. These extracts are applied either externally as lotions and baths or internally as potions, decoctions and teas. Ailments traditionally treated with ferns include coughs, colds, fevers, pain, burns and wounds, asthma, rheumatism, diarrhoea, or skin diseases (eczema, rashes, itching, leprosy)...

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.2147/DDDT.S107018.].

Sarcopenia is a progressive muscle disease characterized by the loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength, function, and physical performance. Since the disease code was assigned, attention has been focused on natural products that can protect against muscle atrophy. Cibotium barometz (Cibotium Rhizome) has been used as an herbal medicine for the treatment of bone or joint diseases in Asian countries. However, no studies have identified the mechanism of action of Cibotium Rhizome on muscle atrophy related to sarcopenia at the site of myotubes...

The issue of ion-adsorption type rare earth deposits (IADs) in urban areas of South China has garnered significant attention due to its environmental implications. Hyperaccumulator-based phytoremediation is a potentially effective solution for reducing the environmental impact of IADs in urban areas, particularly using ferns as they are known to be REE hyperaccumulators. However, the ability of different fern species to accumulate REEs in urban areas remains unknown. In this study, four fern species, including known hyperaccumulators (Dicranopteris linearis and Blechnum orientale) and other ferns (Pteris ensiformis and Cibotium barometz), were studied to investigate their REE accumulation abilities in the Guangzhou urban area...

The study aimed to elucidate the effective chemical composition and molecular mechanism of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment with Jishe Qushi capsules (JSQS) and perform clinical validation. The effective chemical components were screened by a database. We used Cytoscape software to construct the key target-RA composite target network of JSQS. Gene Ontology biofunctional analysis and Kyoto encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis were performed for the key targets, followed by molecular docking validation of core key targets...

Cibotium barometz (Linn.) J. Sm., a tree fern in the Dicksoniaceae family, is an economically important industrial exported plant in China and widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. C. barometz produces a range of bioactive triterpenes and their metabolites. However, the biosynthetic pathway of triterpenes in C. barometz remains unknown. To clarify the origin of diverse triterpenes in C. barometz , we conducted de novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis of C. barometz rhizomes and leaves to identify the candidate genes involved in C...

Germplasm resources are the source of herbal medicine production. The cultivation of superior germplasm resources helps to resolve the conflict between long-term population persistence and growing market demand by consistently producing materials with high quality. The fern species Cibotium barometz is the original plant of cibotii rhizoma ("Gouji"), a traditional Chinese medicine used in the therapy of pain, weakness, and numbness in the lower extremities. Long-history medicinal use has caused serious wild population decline in China...

Spores and pollen of plants were used as flow cytometric materials to efficiently infer genome sizes. Given this advantage, they hold great potential for various flow cytometric applications, particularly as plant genome size standards. To develop such novel standards, we investigated conditions of pretreatment (bead vortex), buffer, and reliable genome sizes of three fern spore collections- Cibotium taiwanense " Kuo4395 ", Sphaeropteris lepifera " Tang0001 ", and Alsophila metteniana " Lee s.n. ". Additionally, up to 30 year-old spore collections were obtained from herbarium specimens and from samples stored at 4 °C; their spore nuclei were extracted, and the quality and quantity of these nucleus extractions through storage ages were examined...

Although the effects of N deposition on forest plants have been widely reported, few studies have focused on rare and endangered fern species (REFs). Information is also lacking on the effects of micro-environments on REFs. We investigated the effects of N addition (canopy and understory N addition, CAN, and UAN) and micro-environments (soil and canopy conditions) on the functional traits (growth, defense, and reproduction; 19 traits in total) of two REFs- Alsophila podophylla and Cibotium baromet -in a subtropical forest in South China...

Cibotium barometz is a representative tonifying kidney drug and is widely used for osteoarthritis (OA) in traditional Chinese medicine. However, its regulatory mechanisms in treating OA remain to be sufficiently investigated. The main chemical components of Cibotium barometz were screened through the TCMID database and the corresponding targets were acquired through SwissTargetPrediction. The OA-related targets were obtained from the OMIM, Genecards, Genebank, TTD, and DisGeNET databases. The prediction of key targets and pathways of Cibotium barometz in the treatment of OA was achieved by constructing a compounds-targets network and performing KEGG enrichment analysis...

It is the first report on the complete chloroplast genome of Plagiogyria euphlebia , a fascinating fern with important taxonomic significance. Its genome size is 161,046 bp with 43.5% GC content, including a large single copy (LSC) region (90,975 bp), a small single copy (SSC) region (21,441 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (IRa and IRb) regions (24,315 bp). The cp genome has 133 genes involving 89 protein-coding genes, 33 tRNA genes, and three pseudogenes. ML tree reveals that P. euphlebia is sister to Cyatheales, especially closely related to Cibotium barometz...

BACKGROUND: Starting December 2019, mankind faced an unprecedented enemy, the COVID-19 virus. The world convened in international efforts, experiences and technologies in order to fight the emerging pandemic. Isolation, hygiene measure, diagnosis, and treatment are the most efficient ways of prevention and intervention nowadays. The health organizations and global care systems screened the available resources and offered recommendations of approved and proposed medications. However, the search for a specific selective therapy or vaccine against COVID-19 remains a challenge...

The genus Neurisothrips is known only from the Hawaiian Islands, where it has radiated into a considerable number of species. No other species of the worldwide family Thripidae is endemic to Hawaii, and the lack of structural diversity amongst the members of this genus might suggest that they are derived from a single ancestral introduction. The phylogenetic relationships of Neurisothrips are unclear, but it is possibly derived from Frankliniella, the most species-rich Thripidae genus on the American continent...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most malignant central nervous system tumor, with poor prognosis. Temozolomide (TMZ) has been used as a first-line drug for the treatment of GBM for over a decade, but its treatment benefits are limited by acquired resistance. Polysaccharides from Cibotium barometz (CBPs) are polysaccharides purified from the root of Cibotium barometz (L.) J. Sm., possessing sensitizing activity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti-cancer effect of CBP from different processing methods on U87 cells using a 1 H NMR-based metabolic approach, complemented with qRT-PCR and flow cytometry, to identify potential markers and discover the targets to explore the underlying mechanism...

Cibotium barometz, an important traditional Chinese medicine, is used in strengthening bones and tendons. We found that C. barometz crude polysaccharides (CB70) could alleviate bone loss and markedly improve the biomechanical properties of OVX rats. Thus, to clarify biological active ingredient(s) of CB70, two homogeneous polysaccharides (CBP70-1-1 and CBP70-1-2) were purified from CB70. A combination of monosaccharide composition, FT-IR, GC-MS and NMR analysis indicated that CBP70-1-1 was composed of →6)-D-Galp-(1→, D-Glcp-(1→, →3,6)-D-Manp-(1→, →4)-D-Glcp-(1→ and →6)-D-Glcp-(1→ with relative molecular weights of 12,724 Da, and CBP70-1-2 was composed of →4)-D-Glcp-(1→, D-Glcp-(1→, →3,6)-D-Manp-(1→, →6)-D-Galp-(1→, →4,6)-D-Glcp-(1→ and →3)-L-Araf-(1→ with relative molecular weights of 3611 Da...

Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by increasing osseous fragility and fracture due to the reduced bone mass and microstructural degradation. Primary pharmacological strategies for the treatment of osteoporosis, hormone replacement treatment (HRT), and alendronate therapies may produce adverse side-effects and may not be recommended for long-term usage. Some classic and bone-specific natural Chinese medicine are very popularly used to treat osteoporosis and bone fracture effectively in clinical with their potential value in bone growth and development, but with few adverse side-effects...

Two rarely phenolic acid-substituted alloses (1, 2) and one new glucoside (3), as well as nine known compounds (4-12) were isolated from rhizomes of Cibotium barometz (L.) J. Sm. Structures of 1-3 were established by extensively spectroscopic analyses (NMR, MS, etc.) and acid hydrolysis. All compounds were evaluated for the hepatoprotective activities against APAP-induced HepG2 cell damage. Compounds 1, 4-7, 10 exhibited significant hepatoprotective activities, even more strongly than positive control, bicycol...

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to evaluate the antidermatophytic activity of 48 extracts obtained from medicinal plants (Cibotium barometz, Melastoma malabathricum, Meuhlenbeckia platyclada, Rhapis excelsa, Syzygium myrtifolium, Vernonia amygdalina) and marine algae (Caulerpa sertularioides, Kappaphycus alvarezii) against Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigitale (ATCC reference strains), and the cytotoxicity using African monkey kidney epithelial (Vero) cells. Active plant extracts were screened for the presence of phytochemicals and tested against clinical isolates of Trichophyton tonsurans...

Rechargeable sodium-iodine and lithium-iodine batteries have been demonstrated to be promising and scalable energy-storage devices, but their development has been seriously limited by challenges such as their inferior stability and the poor kinetics of iodine. Anchoring iodine to 3D porous carbon is an effective strategy to overcome these defects; however, both the external architecture and internal microstructure of the 3D porous carbon host can greatly affect the ion intercalation of iodine/C electrodes. To realize the full potential of iodine electrodes, a biochemistry-enabled route was developed to enable the controllable design of different 3D porous architectures, from hollow microspheres to 3D foam, for use in iodine/C cathodes...