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 ...

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 ...

Lotus is rich in benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) in almost all tissues and has great potential for developing new drugs ...

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 ...