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Zhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2022 ObjectiveScreening bio-samples from a food poisoning event based on ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-QTOF MS), and to provide strategies and references for patient treatment as well as the ...
GUO Qiaozhen +4 more
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Opera and poison : a secret and enjoyable approach to teaching and learning chemistry [PDF]
, 2013 The storyline of operas, with historical or fictional characters, often include potions and poisons. This has prompted a study of the chemistry behind some operatic plots.
Bentley R. +43 more
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Influence of different Agrobacterium rhizogenes strains on hairy roots induction and secondary metabolites production in Datura innoxia Mill. [PDF]
Journal of Medicinal Plants, 2022 Background: Datura innoxia Mill. is one of the medicinal plant which can produce tropan alkaloids such as hyoscyamine and scopolamine with analgesic and antiasthmatic activities.
Parisa Naderian +3 more
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Biotechnological Approaches on Engineering Medicinal Tropane Alkaloid Production in Plants
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Hyoscyamine and scopolamine, belonging to medicinal tropane alkaloids (MTAs), are potent anticholinergic drugs. Their industrial production relies on medicinal plants, but the levels of the two alkaloids are very low in planta.
Haiyue Gong +5 more
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Defensive stratagems of plants, with special reference to allelopathy [PDF]
, 1985 The green plant has evolved an array of defences to ameliorate the effects of stresses in its environment. Allelopathy, biochemical interactions between plants, plays a role in plant defence but recent work suggests that some compounds which act as ...
Lovett, JV
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Case Reports in Cardiology, 2017 Reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are used as first-line treatment for myasthenia gravis. They improve symptoms by increasing concentration of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction and stimulating nicotinic receptors.
Mohammad Saud Khan +5 more
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Application of Metabolic Engineering to the Production of Scopolamine
Molecules, 2008 Scopolamine is an alkaloid widely used in medicine for its anticholinergic activity. The aim of this review is to show that metabolic engineering techniques constitute a suitable tool to improve the production of tropane alkaloids, focusing in particular
Mohammad Hossein Mirjalili +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 Tropane alkaloids (TAs) are synthesized by some species in Solanaceae. Here, the authors assemble the genomes of two representative TAs producing species, show that gene loss shapes uneven distribution of TAs in Solanaceae, and identify a cytochrome P450
Fangyuan Zhang +17 more
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Functional diversity of 2-oxoglutarate/Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenases in plant metabolism [PDF]
, 2014 Oxidative enzymes catalyze many different reactions in plant metabolism. Among this suite of enzymes are the 2-oxoglutarate/Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenases (2-ODDs). Cytochromes P450 (CYPs) as often considered the most versatile oxidative enzymes in nature,
Peter J. Facchini, Scott C. Farrow
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Protein and alkaloid patterns of the floral nectar in some solanaceous species [PDF]
, 2015 The family Solanaceae includes several melliferous plants, which tend to produce copious amounts of nectar. Floral nectar is a chemically complex aqueous solution, dominated by sugars, but minor components such as amino acids, proteins, flavonoids and ...
Bacskay, Ivett +5 more
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