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Title:The Calabar Bean and its Alkaloids
From Magic, via Miracle, to Memory /
Person: Robinson, Brian.
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Main Author: Robinson, Brian (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1191-1
Summary:Investigations into Calabar beans (the dried ripe seeds of Physostigma venenosum) and their alkaloidal components compose a classical scientific journey throughout some one-and-a-half centuries and not only represent a fascinating aspect of the history of medicine but which is, moreover, still ongoing at the forefront of chemical and medical discovery. Those in particular involving its major such component, l-physostigmine, have led to an understanding of some of the fundamental mechanisms occurring in physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry and, either actually or potentially (by providing a template and thereby acting as a "lead compound") have provided a useful treatment for a variety of neurological disorders associated with irregularities in cholinergic transmission in which augmentation of cholinergic activity has proved to be beneficial.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 267 p. 240 illus.)
ISBN:9789402411911