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Alkaloids isolated from members of the Amaryllidaceae plant family are promising anticancer agents. The purpose of the current study was to determine if the isocarbostyrils narciclasine, pancratistatin, lycorane, lycorine, crinane, and haemanthamine ...
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A NEW SPECIES OF CYRTANTHUS (CYRTANTHEAE) FROM THE SOUTHERN CAPE, SOUTH ...
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Natural products have always played a significant role in the search for new drugs. One of the most relevant alkaloid-containing plant groups is the Amaryllidaceae family, a source of exclusive structures with a wide variety of pharmacological activities.
Marilú Roxana Soto-Vásquez +3 more
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The Genus Nerine Herb. (Amaryllidaceae): Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry, and Biological Activity
Nerine Herbert, family Amaryllidaceae, is a genus of about 30 species that are native to South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Species of Nerine are autumn-flowering, perennial, bulbous plants, which inhabit
Lucie Cahlíková +6 more
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Amaryllidaceae alkaloids are secondary metabolites with interesting medicinal properties. Almost every Narcissus species can synthesize them and constitute an excellent source for their isolation and study.
Julia Lisa-Molina +8 more
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Intrapopulational chromosome number variation in Zephyranthes sylvatica Baker (Amaryllidaceae: Hippeastreae) from northeast Brazil. [PDF]
Zephyranthes Herb. is a taxonomically complex and cytologically variable group, withabout 65 species of Neotropical distribution. Chromosome number variability in 32 individuals of a Zephyranthes sylvaticapopulation from Northeast Brazil was investigated.
DUTILH, J. H. A. +4 more
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Amaryllidaceae Alkaloid Cherylline Inhibits the Replication of Dengue and Zika Viruses
Dengue fever, caused by dengue virus (DENV) is the most prevalent arthropod-borne viral disease and is endemic in many tropical and subtropical parts of the world, with an increasing incidence in temperate regions.
Seydou Ka +13 more
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Acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting Alkaloids from Zephyranthes concolor
The bulbs and aerial parts of Zephyranthes concolor (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook. f. (Amaryllidaceae), an endemic species to Mexico, were found to contain the alkaloids chlidanthine, galanthamine, galanthamine N-oxide, lycorine, galwesine, and ...
Sebastien Arseneau +9 more
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Can phylogeny predict chemical diversity and potential medicinal activity of plants? A case study of amaryllidaceae [PDF]
Background During evolution, plants and other organisms have developed a diversity of chemical defences, leading to the evolution of various groups of specialized metabolites selected for their endogenous biological function.
Birkholm, Trine +11 more
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Recent Progress in Amaryllidaceae Biotechnology
Plants belonging to the monocotyledonous Amaryllidaceae family include about 1100 species divided among 75 genera. They are well known as medicinal and ornamental plants, producing pharmaceutically important alkaloids, the most intensively investigated ...
Vasil Georgiev +2 more
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