USDA-ARS
National Center for Natural Products Research
Room 3044
Tel: 662-915-1037
email: arimando@ars.usda.gov

Agnes does bioassay-guided isolation and structure elucidation of natural products to discover new herbicidal compounds.

AGNES M. RIMANDO


EDUCATION

Ph.D. Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993.

PUBLICATIONS

Rimando, A.M. and Porter, J.K. Fusaric acid increases melatonin in the weanling rat and in pineal culture. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health. 50: 101-110, 1997.

Porter, J.K., Wray, E.M., Rimando, A.M., Stancel, P.C., Bacon, C.W., and Voss, K.A. Lactational passage of fusaric acid from the feed of nursing dams to the neonate rat and effects on pineal neurochemistry in the F1 and F2 generations at weaning. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health. 49:161-175, 1996.

van Breemen, R.B., Huang, C.R., Lu, Z.Z., Rimando, A.M., Fong, H.H.S., and Fitzloff, J.F. Electrospray liquid chromatography/Mass spectrometry of ginsenosides. Analytical Chemistry. 67, 3985-3989, 1995.

Rimando, A.M., Pezzuto, J.M., Farnsworth, N.R., Santisuk, T., and Reutrakul, V. Revision of the NMR assignments of pterostilbene and dihydrodehydro-diconiferyl alcohol: cytotoxic constituents from Anogeissus acuminata Nat. Prod. Lett. 4(1)267-272, 1994.

Rimando, A.M., Pezzuto, J.M., Farnsworth, N.R., Santisuk, T., and Reutrakul, V. HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitory constituent(s) of Anogeissus acuminata. J. Nat. Prod. 57(7)896-904, 1994.

Zhao, T., Wang, X., Rimando, A.M., and Che, C.T. Folkloric medicinal plants: Tinospora sagitata var. cravaniana and Mahonia bealei. Planta Medica 57(5)505, 1991.

Mondranondra, I., Che, C.T., Rimando, A.M., Vajrodaya, S., Fong, H.H.S., and Farnsworth, N.R.Sesquiterpene lactones and other constituents from a cytotoxic extract of Michelia floribunda. Pharmaceutical Research 7(12)1269-1272, 1990.

Rimando, A.M., Inoshiri, S., Otsuka, H., Kohda, H., Yamasaki, K., Padolina, W.G., Torres, L.,Quintana, E.G., and Cantoria, M.C. Screening for mast cell histamine release inhibitory activity of Philippine medicinal plants. Active constituent of Michelia microphylla. Shoyakugaku Zasshi 41(3)242-247, 1987.

Rimando, A.M, Han, B.H., Park, J.H., and Cantoria, M.C. Studies on the constituents of Philippine Piper betle Linne leaves. Arch. Pharm. Res. 9(2)93-97, 1986.

AWARDS

USDA Merit Award for Outstanding Research, Athens, GA, 1996.
American Society of Pharmacognosy Travel Grant for Graduate Students, 1993.
Illinois State Academy of Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant, 1993.
WHO'S WHO Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for 1992.
Selected by the United States Achievement Academy (USAA) for the All-American Scholars At Large Division, 1990.
USAA National Collegiate Student Government Award for 1989-90.
Japan Ministry of Education and Culture (Monbusho) Research Scholarship; 1985 to 1987, Hiroshima University, Japan.
UNESCO-ROSTSEA Research Scholarship; 1984, Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University, Korea.

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