“…The family Campanulaceae is rich in species containing flavonoids (Dzhumyrko, 1975;Cuendet et al, 2001;Yaylı et al, 2003;Dumlu et al, 2008), triterpenoids (Lee et al, 2002;Yaylı et al, 2005;Kim et al, 2006a;Son et al, 2007), phenylpropanoid (Cuendet et al, 2001;Lee et al, 2004a), phenolic glycosides (Kuang et al, 1991), polyacetylenes (Dumlu et al, 2008), alkaloids (Shibano et al, 2001;Ishida et al, 2008), cyanogenic glycosides (Harborne et al, 1996) and essential oil (Morteza-Semnani et al, 2008). Pharmacological effects of several species have also been reported such as antioxidant (Lee et al, 2004a,b;Dumlu et al, 2008;Jeong et al, 2010), anti-inflammatory, anti-atherosclerotic (Kim et al, 2006a), neuroprotective (Son et al, 2007), cytotoxic and chemopreventive activities (Lee et al, 2002).…”