A comprehensive review of cycloastragenol: Biological activity, mechanism of action and structural modifications

• Main Authors: Mengting He (Author), Ke Wang (Author), Haojie Che (Author), Huifang Wang (Author), Kan Yang (Author), Guiming Zhang (Author), Jingchun Yao (Author), Jinxin Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cycloastragenol (CAG) is a sapogenin of Astragaloside IV (AG-IV), isolated from the dried roots of legumes Astragalus mongolica or Astragalus membranaceus. Cycloastragenol has a steroidal skeleton of tetracyclic triterpene and possess diverse pharmacological activities such as anti-aging, anti-infla...