A New Furostanol Saponin from the Water-extract of Dioscorea nipponica Mak.,the Raw Material of the Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine Wei Ao Xin

• Cheng Bin CUI ^1,2, ,
• Chi XU ^1, ,
• Qian Qun GU ^1, ,
• Shi Dong CHU ^1, ,
• Hai Hong JI ^3, ,
• Gang JING ^3,

• 1.

  Marine Drug and Food Institute, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003;

• 2.

  Tianjin Institute for Biomedicinal Research(TIBiR), Tianjin 300384;

• 3.

  TOPSUN Group CO., LTD, Xi'an 710075

• Received Date: 02 September 2003
  
• Fund Project:

  This work was supported by the Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (C.-B. CUI, No.39825126), the Fund for the 973-project from Ministry of Science and Technology (C.-B. CUI, No.1998051113), China, and the Fund for Cheung Kong Scholar (C.-B. CUI) from the Cheung Kong Scholars Program of Ministry of Education of China.