Swietenia mahagoni

Moreover, the same extract has inhibited the replication of HIV-1 in infected MT-4 cells [107] and moderately inhibited avian myeloblastosis virus-reverse transcriptase [108], These investigations suggest that the anti-HIV effect of the methanol extract of Swietenia mahagoni seems to be due to inhibition of HIV-protease by chlorogenic acids. 

Taxonomy Cycloartane Triterpenoids Swietenia mahagoni Linn. (Meliaceae) [1, 2]. 

Anjaneyulu AS, Murthy YL, Row LR 1978 Novel triterpenes from Swietenia mahagoni Linn Part I-Isolation and structure determination of 9-19 cycloswietenol. Indian J Chem 16B 650-654... 

Various limonoid compounds such as mahmoodin, azadirone, epoxyazadiradi-one, nimbin, gedunin, azadiradione, deacetylnimbin and 17-hydroxyazadiradione, isolated from various parts of Azadirachta indica (Meliaceae family) have been reported to have antimicrobial activities (Siddiqui et al. 1992 Govindachari et al. 2000 Atawodi and Atawodi 2009). Rahman et al. (2009) tested two limonoids isolated from the seeds of Swietenia mahagoni (Meliaceae family), swietenolide and... 

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