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Secondary metabolites and their exploitation in medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Many of the medicinal products available today are derived from secondary metabolites. Plants remain the main source of such therapeutic agents but other sources are being explored and exploited.
Baldacchino, Alexandra   +2 more
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Sprcial discussion: Future Roles for Tincture of Opium in Medical Intervention for Opioid Dependence Treads and Hopes

open access: yesResearch on Addiction, 2009
Opium tincture or tincture of opium (TOP), also known as Laudanum, is an alcoholic herbal preparation of opium. It is made by combining ethanol with opium latex or powder. After works of Paracelsus, the 16th century Swiss-German alchemist, who discovered

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Cocaine: The Complementarity Between Legal and Illegal Trade [PDF]

open access: yes
The smuggling cost of an imported illegal good decreases as the volume of legally imported goods increases. First because more imports are typically associated to an increased number of transporters, which is an increased supply of potential smugglers ...
Francesco Flaviano Russo
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The Psychedelic Influence on Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A mildly chronological overview of the philosophers who may have been inspired by the use of psychoactive chemicals, inc. Plato, de Quincey, Davy, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Bergson, Benjamin, Jünger, Paz, Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault; and a mention of
Sjöstedt-H., Peter
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Salutaridine and its derivatives as thebaine-equivalents in the synthesis of aporphines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Here we report on the transformation of tetracyclic morphinan salutaridine (1) into 2,3,10,11-tetrasubstituted (R)-aporphines. This method serves as another chemical proof of the previously verified biosynthetic connection with pentacyclic ...
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Effects of Plant Growth Regulators and Foliar Nutrients on the Alkaloid Content in Poppy Straw of Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Plant Biology
Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) is an important industrial plant worldwide. It is legally cultivated in seven countries around the world for the production of poppy straw or raw opium in India for alkaloid extraction. This work focused on testing different
Ľuboš Nastišin   +7 more
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Examining of Relationships Among Traits Using Correlation, Path and Principal Components Analysis Methods in Turkish Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) Cultivars

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Sciences, 2018
Opium poppy is an important medicinal plant because of its very valuable pharmaceutical alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine, etc. The research was carried out with the aim to examining the relationships between capsule yield, some other ...
Nimet Kara, Hasan Baydar
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