Constituents of the fruit of noni and their Selective inhibitory effects of cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme.

The 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy. August 5-9, 2006. Arlington, Virginia.
Constituents of the fruit of noni and their Selective inhibitory effects of cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme.
Shixin Deng, Afa Palu, Bing-nan Zhou, Chen Su, Jarakae Jensen, Brett West

Several phytochemicals have been isolated from noni fruit which selectively inhibit COX-2 in vitro, indicating potential anti-inflammatory activity. Of these phytochemicals, two novel compounds (not known to exist anywhere previously) have been discovered. (view original abstract at www.phcog.org/AnnualMtg/2006/papers/P_263.pdf)