Description
A steroidal sapogenin with diverse biological activities; inhibits T0901317-induced activation of LXR in HepG2 cells in a reporter assay at 5 or 10 µM; decreases triglyceride levels in primary mouse hepatocytes at 10 µM; cytotoxic to HaCaT keratinocytes, as well as HeLa and SKOV3 cancer cells (IC50s = 16.4, 19.6, and 23.9 µg/ml, respectively)