THE alkaloids of plants have long offered a most interesting and attractive, if always difficult, field of research to both chemists and physiologists. The subtle chemistry of the vegetable cell ...

Alkaloids are chemicals that are mainly found in plants. For something to be considered an alkaloid, it must contain nitrogen and affect the human body, usually from a medicinal perspective.

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 ...

Since the early 1800s, practitioners of organic chemistry have been fascinated with a group of plant-derived compounds called "alkaloids." Alkaloids contain at least one nitrogen atom among other ...

The most potent of the related alkaloids was the mitragynine oxidation product 7-hydroxymitragynine. Its MOR potency was one-tenth that of morphine, while mitragynine’s was one-hundredth. On ...

Tropane alkaloid biosynthesis in Hyoscyamus niger. The gene sequences for the enzymes in bold were addressed in this study. Credit: J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. (2023). DOI: 10.21273/JASHS05309-23 ...

IN spite of the fact that modern fashions in chemical research have inclined towards the hormones and vitamins, much work has been accomplished during the past twenty years in the field of the ...