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15 Citations
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24 November 2022

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive disorder that affects brain nerve cells responsible for body motion and remains incurable. p-Hydroxybenzyl alcohol (HBA) is the primary phenolic compound in Gastrodiae Rhizoma, known for its therapeutic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Compounds and Healthy Foods: New Strategy to Counteract Chronic Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,226 Views
19 Pages

Characterization of the Inhibitory Effect of Gastrodigenin and Gastrodin on M-type K+ Currents in Pituitary Cells and Hippocampal Neurons

  • Chih-Sheng Yang,
  • Ming-Chi Lai,
  • Ping-Yen Liu,
  • Yi-Ching Lo and ,
  • Chin-Wei Huang and
  • Sheng-Nan Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 December 2019

Gastrodigenin (HBA) and gastrodin (GAS) are phenolic ingredients found in Gastrodia elata Blume (GEB), a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. These compounds have been previously used to treat cognitive dysfunction, convulsion, and dizziness. However...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioactives and Nutraceuticals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,534 Views
28 Pages

Mechanism of P-Hydroxy Benzyl Alcohol Against Cerebral Ischemia Based on Metabonomics Analysis

  • Tian Xiao,
  • Xingling Yu,
  • Jie Tao,
  • Jiaoyang Tan and ,
  • Zhourong Zhao,
  • Chao Zhang and
  • Xiaohua Duan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Stroke is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with ischemic stroke accounting for the majority of these. HBA is the active ingredient in Gastrodia elata and has potential therapeutic effects on central nervous system diseases. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
408 Views
18 Pages

Seed Weight and Seeding Rate of Gastrodia elata Bl. f. glauca S. Chow: Significant Yield Increase but Limited Effect on Bioactive Components

  • Yong Wang,
  • Yongyao Li,
  • Zhongjun Cheng,
  • Caiyun Wang and ,
  • Min Liu,
  • Maochang Zhou and
  • Xiangyu Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 August 2026

Under-forest wild-simulated cultivation of Gastrodia elata Bl. f. glauca S. Chow (Wu Tianma, WTM) offers a viable pathway for reconciling ecological conservation with economic and health benefits, yet optimal seed tuber regimes remain understudied. W...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
5,501 Views
11 Pages

Structural Characterization of a Polysaccharide from Gastrodia elata and Its Bioactivity on Gut Microbiota

  • Jiangyan Huo,
  • Min Lei,
  • Feifei Li,
  • Jinjun Hou and ,
  • Zijia Zhang,
  • Huali Long,
  • Xianchun Zhong,
  • Yameng Liu,
  • Cen Xie and
  • Wanying Wu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

23 July 2021

A novel homogeneous polysaccharide named GEP-1 was isolated and purified from Gastrodia elata (G. elata) by hot-water extraction, ethanol precipitation, and membrane separator. GEP-1, which has a molecular weight of 20.1 kDa, contains a polysaccharid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Isolation, Identification and Applications of Polysaccharides)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,301 Views
13 Pages

Polyoxalate (POx) and copolyoxalate (CPOx) smart polymers are topics of interest the field of inflammation. This is due to their drug delivery ability and their potential to target reactive oxygen species (ROS) and to accommodate small molecules such...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,988 Views
22 Pages

The Antimicrobial Effects of Myrosinase Hydrolysis Products Derived from Glucosinolates Isolated from Lepidium draba

  • Zoltán Polozsányi,
  • Helena Galádová,
  • Michal Kaliňák,
  • Martin Jopčík and ,
  • Barbora Kaliňáková,
  • Albert Breier and
  • Martin Šimkovič
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 March 2024

Lepidium draba (hoary cress) is a perennial plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family that produces two dominant glucosinolates (GLSs): glucoraphanin (GRN) and sinalbin (SBN). They represent the stored form, which is converted upon the myrosinase (M...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research of Bioactive Substances in Plant Extracts II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
623 Views
23 Pages

25 August 2026

Gastrodia elata rhizome (GER), long used medicinally and as food in East Asia, is now produced via outdoor field (OFC) or indoor facility (IFC) cultivation. This study evaluated phenolic composition and antioxidant properties of GER by cultivation me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Plant-Based Foods: From Sustainable Production to Functional Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,778 Views
12 Pages

pH as a Key Factor for the Quality Assurance of the Preparation of Gastrodiae Rhizoma Formula Granules

  • Shuting Xie,
  • Ke Min,
  • Hai Li,
  • Ying Wang and ,
  • Mincong Liu,
  • Ming Ma,
  • Desheng Zhou,
  • Haijun Tu and
  • Bo Chen
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 November 2022

Gastrodiae rhizoma (GR) formula granules and preparations have been used as a popular traditional Chinese medicine for clinical treatment since they have good pharmacological activity to treat nervous system diseases. Gastrodin and parishins have bee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of Food Bioactives: Chemical Challenges and Bio-Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
7,454 Views
16 Pages

Quality Evaluation of Gastrodia Elata Tubers Based on HPLC Fingerprint Analyses and Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Components by Single Marker

  • Yehong Li,
  • Yiming Zhang,
  • Zejun Zhang,
  • Yupiao Hu and ,
  • Xiuming Cui and
  • Yin Xiong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 April 2019

Gastrodia elata (G. elata) tuber is a valuable herbal medicine used to treat many diseases. The procedure of establishing a reasonable and feasible quality assessment method for G. elata tuber is important to ensure its clinical safety and efficacy....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Chemical Analysis Procedures (Part II): Statistical and Chemometric Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,272 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Steam and Water Blanching on Drying Characteristics, Water Distribution, Microstructure, and Bioactive Components of Gastrodia Elata

  • Yong-Kang Xie,
  • Xing-Yi Li,
  • Chang Chen,
  • Wei-Peng Zhang and ,
  • Xian-Long Yu,
  • Hong-Wei Xiao and
  • Feng-Yin Lu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 March 2023

In the current work, the effects of steam and boiling water blanching on the drying characteristics, water distribution, microstructure, and contents of bioactive substances of Gastrodia elata (G. elata) were explored. Results showed that the degree...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies for Reducing Postharvest Loss of Fruits and Vegetables)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,180 Views
18 Pages

Novel Silyl Ether-Based Acid-Cleavable Antibody-MMAE Conjugates with Appropriate Stability and Efficacy

  • Yanming Wang,
  • Shiyong Fan,
  • Dian Xiao,
  • Fei Xie and ,
  • Wei Li,
  • Wu Zhong and
  • Xinbo Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 July 2019

Antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) is a novel efficient drug delivery system that has been successfully used in clinical practice, and it has become a research hotspot in the anti-tumor drug field. Acid-cleavable linkers were first used in clinical ADCs,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
6,663 Views
14 Pages

Transformation Mechanisms of Chemical Ingredients in Steaming Process of Gastrodia elata Blume

  • Yun Li,
  • Xiao-Qian Liu,
  • Shan-Shan Liu,
  • Da-hui Liu and ,
  • Xiao Wang and
  • Zhi-Min Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 August 2019

To explore the transformation mechanisms of free gastrodin and combined gastrodin before and after steaming of Gastrodia elata (G. elata), a fresh G. elata sample was processed by the traditional steaming method prescribed by Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Food and Natural Product Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,411 Views
13 Pages

14 November 2025

Gastrodiae Rhizoma (GR) is known to have a medicinal and food-based homology. It is used to treat infantile convulsion, epilepsy, spasm, tetanus, and vertigo. In this study, an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (UH...

(This article belongs to the Section Analytical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
556 Views
24 Pages

Optimized Preparation of Gastrodiae elata Extract Enhances Antiepileptic Effects by Regulating Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Neuronal Apoptosis in Rats

  • He Wang,
  • Shiyi Lun,
  • Hu Ding,
  • Zhimeng Li and ,
  • Xian Wu,
  • Huiyang Yuan,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Guoxin Ji,
  • Huan Wang and
  • Shumin Wang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures. Gastrodia elata, the dried tuber of G. elata Bl. (Orchidaceae), is a valuable medicinal and edible botanical resource. This study optimized the preparation of Yel...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioorganic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,181 Views
21 Pages

Comprehensive Metabolomic–Transcriptomic Analysis of the Regulatory Effects of Armillaria mellea Source Differences on Secondary Metabolism in Gastrodia elata

  • Duo Han,
  • Chengcui Yang,
  • Liuyuan Bao,
  • Li Dong and ,
  • Haiyan He,
  • Peng Tang,
  • Yongzhi Zhang,
  • Fen Xiong,
  • Honggao Liu and
  • Shunqiang Yang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 January 2026

Armillaria mellea (A. mellea) serves as a crucial nutritional source for Gastrodia elata (GE) growth, and its origin directly influences the GE quality and yield. This study analyzed GE symbiotic with A. mellea from different sources using metabolomi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
309 Views
26 Pages

30 September 2026

Gastrodin (GAS), a bioactive glycoside from Gastrodia elata, shows anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective activity in preclinical models. This narrative review evaluates whether autophagy, mitochondrial quality control, and NOD-like receptor family py...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bioactivity and Molecular Mechanisms of Natural Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,708 Views
14 Pages

6 November 2019

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a growing public health concern worldwide, especially with the emerging challenge of drug resistance to the current drugs. Efforts to discover and develop novel, more effective, and safer an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant-Derived Chemicals: A Source of Inspiration for New Drugs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
641 Views
22 Pages

Changes in the Quality Characteristics of Gastrodia Elata During Traditional Processing: Insights from Multi-Omics Integration

  • Weiqian Wang,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Muhammad Aaqil,
  • Siyu Zhou and ,
  • Xinyu Wei,
  • Linyu Li,
  • Zengzeng Chen,
  • Jun Sheng,
  • Yang Tian and
  • Cunchao Zhao
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

31 July 2026

Gastrodia elata Bl. (GE), a representative medicine–food homology material, requires appropriate processing prior to food application to meet established medicinal quality standards. However, the effects of different traditional processing meth...

(This article belongs to the Section Foodomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
19 Pages

11 October 2026

To promote the comprehensive utilization of Gastrodia elata (GE) resources, an efficient ultrasonic-assisted extraction (UAE) method was developed to enrich gastrodin (GAS) and phenolic constituents, which possess sedative, neuroprotective and hepato...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Optimization of Extraction/Separation Processes for Natural Products)
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  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,284 Views
16 Pages

Gastrodin and Gastrodigenin Improve Energy Metabolism Disorders and Mitochondrial Dysfunction to Antagonize Vascular Dementia

  • Sha Wu,
  • Rong Huang,
  • Ruiqin Zhang,
  • Chuang Xiao and ,
  • Lueli Wang,
  • Min Luo,
  • Na Song,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Fang Yang and
  • Weimin Yang
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

13 March 2023

Vascular dementia (VD) is the second most common dementia syndrome worldwide, and effective treatments are lacking. Gastrodia elata Blume (GEB) has been used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine for centuries to treat cognitive impairment, ischemic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neuroprotective Agents from Natural Products and Their Related Molecular Mechanisms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,933 Views
8 Pages

22 July 2024

In this paper, an alternative and efficient copper(I)-catalyzed synthesis of 2-sulfonyliminocoumarins is developed through a three-component reaction of ortho-hydroxybenzyl alcohol, alkynes, and p-toluenesulfonyl azide. The proposed route for access...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthetic Studies Aimed at Heterocyclic Organic Compounds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,589 Views
11 Pages

Novel Basidiomycetous Alcohol Oxidase from Cerrena unicolor—Characterisation, Kinetics, and Proteolytic Modifications

  • Sylwia Stefanek,
  • Rafał Typek,
  • Michał Dybowski,
  • Dorota Wianowska and ,
  • Magdalena Jaszek and
  • Grzegorz Janusz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 November 2024

Intracellular alcohol oxidase (AOX) was isolated from the basidiomycetous white rot fungus Cerrena unicolor FCL139. The enzyme was semi-purified (13-fold) using two-step chromatography with 30% activity recovery. The identity of the protein was confi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Recent Advances in Oxidoreductases Biochemistry and Biotechnology)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,639 Views
17 Pages

Phenolic 3° Phosphine Oxides as a Class of Metal-Free Catalysts for the Activation of C–O Bonds in Aliphatic Alcohols: Direct Synthesis of Catalyst Candidates, and Kinetic Studies

  • Matthew A. Martin,
  • Sadie L. Brown,
  • Danielle R. Beres,
  • Wrebekah M. Frederic and ,
  • Ashley M. Banks and
  • Aaron J. Bloomfield
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

It was recently reported that a (2-hydroxybenzyl)phosphine oxide (2-HOBPO) can serve as a phosphorus-centered catalyst for the stereo-invertive coupling of aliphatic alcohols and acidic pronucleophiles (akin to a Mitsunobu reaction, but without addit...

(This article belongs to the Section Coordination Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,046 Views
27 Pages

13 September 2024

Ischemic stroke is a common and dangerous disease in clinical practice. Astrocytes (ASs) are essential for maintaining the metabolic balance of the affected regions during the disease process. 4-Hydroxybenzyl alcohol (4HBA) from Gastrodia elata Bl. h...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pharmacology)