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Ursolic acid is one of the most frequently found natural plant triterpenic acids – metabolite of herbaceous and fruticose plants such as cowberry, whortleberry, cranberry, sea-buckthorn, bearberry, hawthorn, dog-rose, rhododendron, etc., that are used in folk medicine. Ursolic acid and its mixtures with oleanolic and pomolic acids, as well as their conjugates with natural sugars are known for antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, gerontoprotective (hypocholesterolemic, cardiotonic, anti-atherosclerotic, etc.) and other types of health-improving bioactivities.
realization-step:
The production of a pilot batch of ursolic acid with more than 95 % content of the basic component and its compositions has been started at the Pilot Plant of the Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
supplement-areas: Ursolic acid and its native compositions are used in pharmacology (one can find more than 1,500 sources in scientific literature) predominantly as a component of preventive medicine for various diseases including lymphocytic leucaemia, neoplastic tumors, and as a modifier of protein synthesis.
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