Sentences with phrase «alkaloid compounds»

Experimental evidence further suggests that some of the secondary medicinal benefits of California poppy may lie in other alkaloid compounds, such as californidine and escholtzine, which are named for the plant.

The newly discovered fumisoquin synthesis pathway shows that there was a parallel development for the production of isoquinoline alkaloid compounds in both groups of organisms.

Opiates, of course, are natural or synthetic substances that bind to opiate receptors in the brain, and are chemically similar to alkaloid compounds derived from Papaver somniferum, or the opium poppy.

Many alternative medicine websites claim that nightshade vegetables contain a toxic alkaloid compound called solanine.

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The real issue might be whether this is an adequately safe human food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin «Potential harms Lupins contain significant amounts of certain secondary compounds like isoflavones and toxic alkaloids, e.g. lupinine and sparteine.

A synthetic drug — modeled after the alkaloid cytisine from the small flowering Laburnum trees of Europe chemically combined with a compound from the poppy plant — it also curbed drinking in seven rats with continuous access to alcohol and 30 rats trained to self - administer liquor when stressed.

He was an organic chemistry professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, from 1942 to 1976, where he carried out research on alkaloids, antibiotics, enzymes, and other organic compounds.

Three - quarters of the alkaloids they found — to take one class of biologically active compounds — were present only in young leaves, Coley reported here last week at the meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

Alkaloids are a class of natural compounds which behave somewhat like alkalis.

It is a member of an entirely new class of alkaloids; it is an organochlorine compound, which is rarely found in animals; and it is a powerful painkiller.

Based on a plant - based class of molecules known as indoline alkaloids, the compound inhibits an enzyme called polymerase, which enables a virus to make thousands of copies of itself and cause disease, explains Claire Marie Filone, the study's lead author.

Although it shows no sign of the whole - genome triplication identified in Solanaceae species such as tomato, the genome includes several species - specific gene family expansions, among them N - methyltransferases (NMTs) involved in caffeine production, defense - related genes, and alkaloid and flavonoid enzymes involved in secondary compound synthesis.

The presence of alkaloids — naturally occurring toxins produced by trees and other plants — has long been suspected in smoke from forest fires, but the new study is the first to detect the compounds coming directly from a blaze.

Acacia exhibits various pharmaceutical activities due to many of its chemical compounds, mainly phenols, alkaloids, flavonoids, and tannins.

This medicinal compound is a bitter - tasting yellow alkaloid found in the roots and stem bark of various plants, including goldenseal, barberry, Chinese goldenthread and Oregon grape.

Caffeine is an alkaloid — a natural, alkaline nitrogen - containing compound — with the chemical name 1,3,7 - trimethylxanthine and chemical formula C8H10N4O2 [1].

Cacao's main active compound is theobromine, an alkaloid found abundantly in the plant's beans and seeds.

Recent research from India makes it clear that a variety of non-flavonoid and non-carotenoid antioxidant compounds are present in sea vegetables, including several different types of antioxidant alkaloids.

Some researchers have speculated that a group of compounds in the vegetables called alkaloids might worsen inflammation in sensitive people.

Effective botanical antioxidant compounds are widely used in traditional medicine and include tocopherols, flavonoids, phenolic acids, nitrogen containing compounds (indoles, alkaloids, amines, and amino acids), and monoterpenes.

Tea is composed of chlorophyll, proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates, minerals, organic compounds, alkaloids, and polyphenols.

Other compounds in damiana extracts include alkaloids, plant sterols and saponins, some of which may have antistress effects in humans and animals.

The benefit of having all of these nutritional inputs, is that each plant has it's own micronutrient advantage — Including antioxidants, enzymes, alkaloids, vitamins, minerals, and compounds that all support you in their own particular way.

The major components methylxanthine alkaloids and theobromine in regular chocolate is digested & excreted by humans in as little as 3 hours but the same compounds when ingested by dogs stays inside them for 18 hours.