Ergot alkaloids are a group of headache medicines that include dihydroergotamine (Migranal, Trudhesa, others) and ergotamine (Cafergot, Ergomar, Ergostat, others). These drugs are used only to ...

This fact is reflected in the third edition of Henry's "Plant Alkaloids", which to all intents and purposes is a completely new book. It bears little relationship to the second edition published ...

A new class of metabolite, with a pyrrole-like structure, has been demonstrated in the tissues of animals poisoned by pyrrolizidine alkaloids. There is some correlation between the degree of ...

A research team has made progress in understanding benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) in lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), ...

In Q4-2024 world trade of Medicaments containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof, in the form of doses recorded a year-over-year increase (+3.4%) in €, after -2% in the first 3 quarters of 2024. As ...

Researchers at UC Davis have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from pyridine. The discovery will make it easier to explore the therapeutic ...

In what appear to be the first restrictions of their kind, the state of California and the city and county of Denver have ...