Phytochemistry & Biodiscovery

Traditional medicinal systems all over the world have applied herbal drugs over millennia. Research based on this enormous resource creates new insights into the traditional medical systems and the elucidation of the active principles of such plants provides new bioactive compounds which can be developed for future applications in therapy.

Selected Papers:

Vaneková Z, Holloway P, Rollinger JM. Vaccinium uliginosum L. (bog bilberry) and the search for its alleged toxicity: a review. Front. Toxicol. 2024 Jan 31;6:1358840. doi: 10.3389/ftox.2024.1358840.

Eichenauer E, Saukel J, Glasl S. VOLKSMED Database: A Source for Forgotten Wound Healing Plants in Austrian Folk Medicine. Planta Med. 2024 Jun; 90(7-08):498-511. doi: 10.1055/a-2225-7545.

Eichenauer E, Jozić M, Glasl S, Klang V. Spruce Balm-Based Semisolid Vehicles for Wound Healing: Effect of Excipients on Rheological Properties and Ex Vivo Skin Permeation. Pharmaceutics. 2023 Jun 8;15(6):1678. doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics15061678.

Ginko E, Alajmovic Demirović E, Šarić-Kundalić B. Ethnobotanical study of traditionally used plants in the municipality of Zavidovići, BiH. J. Ethnopharmacol. 2022; 302: 115888. 10.1016/j.jep.2022.115888

Goels T, Eichenauer E, Tahir A, Prochaska P, Hoeller F, Heiß EH, Glasl S. Exudates of Picea abies, Pinus nigra, and Larix decidua: Chromatographic comparison and pro-migratory effects on keratinocytes in vitro. Plants 2022; 11(5), 99. 10.3390/plants11050599

Oluyemi WM, Samuel BB, Adewumi AT, Adekunle YA, Soliman MES, Krenn L. An allosteric inhibitory potential of triterpenes from Combretum racemosum on the structural and functional dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum lactate dehydrogenase binding landscape. Chem. Biodiversity 2022, 19, e202100646. 10.1002/cbdv.202100646