Three new 9,19-cycloartane triterpene glycosides, asiaticoside A
(1), asiaticoside B (
2), and 25-
O-ethylcimigenol-3-
O-
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D-xylopyranoside (
3), together with cimiacemoside I (
4), 25-
O-acetylcimigenol-3-
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O-
D-xyloside (
5), and 25-anhydrocimigenol-
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O-
D-xyloside (
6) were isolated from the roots/rhizomes extract of
Actaea asiatica, and their structureswere established by spectroscopic methods (IR, HRESIMS, and NMR). Compounds
1-
3,
5, and
6 had notable cytotoxicityagainst HepG2 and MCF-7 cancer cell lines.