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Despite their common therapeutic use and the intensive pharmacological research including studies on active ingredients, modes of action, bioavailability, pharmacokinetics, and clinical efficacy, frankincense preparations are available as nutraceuticals but have not yet approved as a drug on the market. A major issue of commercially available frankincense nutraceuticals is the striking differences in their composition and quality, especially related to the content of boswellic acids (BAs) as active ingredients, mainly due to the use of material from divergent Boswellia species but also because of different work-up and extraction procedures. Here, we assessed three frequently used frankincense-based preparations for their BA content and the interference with prominent pro-inflammatory actions and targets that have been proposed, that is, 5-lipoxygenase and leukotriene formation in human neutrophils, microsomal prostaglandin E2 synthase-1, and inflammatory cytokine secretion in human blood monocytes. Our data reveal striking differences in the pharmacological efficiencies of these preparations in inflammation-related bioassays which obviously correlate with the amounts of BAs they contain. In summary, high-quality frankincense extracts display powerful anti-inflammatory effectiveness against multiple targets which can be traced back to BAs as bioactive ingredients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ph14070660","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]],"date-time":"2021-07-12T00:23:36Z","timestamp":1626049416000},"page":"660","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Analysis of Boswellic Acid Contents and Related Pharmacological Activities of Frankincense-Based Remedies That Modulate Inflammation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Friedemann","family":"B\u00f6rner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmaceutical\/Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Philosophenweg 14, 07743 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Markus","family":"Werner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmaceutical\/Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Philosophenweg 14, 07743 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Johannes","family":"Ertelt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Heidelberg-Apotheke\/AureliaSan GmbH, Steinhofener Str. 12-16, 72406 Bisingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J\u00fcrgen","family":"Meins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Central Laboratory of German Pharmacists, Carl-Mannich-Str. 20, 65760 Eschborn, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mona","family":"Abdel-Tawab","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Central Laboratory of German Pharmacists, Carl-Mannich-Str. 20, 65760 Eschborn, Germany"},{"name":"Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Stra\u00dfe 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5064-4379","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oliver","family":"Werz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmaceutical\/Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Philosophenweg 14, 07743 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"380","DOI":"10.5604\/17322693.1200553","article-title":"Frankincense--therapeutic properties","volume":"70","author":"Kiczorowska","year":"2016","journal-title":"Postepy Hig. 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