| Tripterygium | |
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| Tripterygium regelii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Genus: | Tripterygium Hook.f. |
| Species [1] | |
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Tripterygium is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes three species of lianas or scrambling shrubs native to Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Myanmar. [1] Tripterygium wilfordii is used in Traditional Chinese medicine.
Three species are accepted. [1]
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Tripterygium wilfordii, or léi gōng téng (Mandarin), sometimes called thunder god vine but more properly translated thunder duke vine, is a vine used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Cynanchum is a genus of about 300 species including some swallowworts, belonging to the family Apocynaceae. The taxon name comes from Greek kynos and anchein, hence the common name for several species is dog-strangling vine. Most species are non-succulent climbers or twiners. There is some evidence of toxicity.
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Neotripterifordin is an anti-viral diterpene lactone isolated from Tripterygium wilfordii.
Triptofordin C-2 is an antiviral chemical compound isolated from Tripterygium wilfordii.
Tripchlorolide is an isolate of Tripterygium wilfordii (雷公藤) that has potential interaction with the NMDA receptor.
Tripdiolide is an anti-inflammatory isolate of Tripterygium wilfordii.
Triptolidenol is a bioactive diterpene created by Tripterygium wilfordii.
Dennstaedtia wilfordii is a species of fern in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Coptodipteris as Coptidipteris wilfordii. It is native from Pakistan through China to Korea and Japan.
Pseudonocardia rhizophila is a bacterium from the genus of Pseudonocardia which has been isolated from rhizosphere soil from the plant Tripterygium wilfordii in Yunnan in China.
Yang Dan is a Hong Kong-Chinese chemist and chemical biologist. She is the Chair Professor of Chemistry and the Morningside Professor in Chemical Biology at the University of Hong Kong. She was awarded the TWAS Prize for Chemistry in 2010 and the Young Woman Scientist Prize of China in 2011.
Stackebrandtia endophytica is an endophytic bacterium from the genus of Stackebrandtia which has been isolated from the stem of the plant Tripterygium wilfordii from Yunnan in China.
Triptonide is a chemical compound found in Tripterygium wilfordii, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine. A 2021 trial in mice and monkeys suggested that triptonide may offer a reversible male contraceptive.