Meanings
- uncountablechemistryAn alkaloid isolated from various plants, including Actinodaphne hookeri, Cassytha filiformis and Litsea monopetala (syn. Litsea polyantha), and investigated for its medicinal properties.
The phenolic aporphine alkaloid actinodaphnine earlier isolated from Actinodaphne hookeri has been reisolated from Litsea polyantha.
1972, Srinivasa Rangaswami, Some Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Natural Products2 more examples
Our results also showed differences in the sensitivities between the tested cell lines to neolitsine, cassythine and actinodaphnine. In general these compounds do not display a selective activity on cancer cell lines, an exception seems to be actinodaphnine which is at least twice less toxic on non cancer 3T3 cells.
2005, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Biodiversity towards drug development, page 90Three aporphine alkaloids (actinodaphnine, cassythine and dicentrine) isolated from C. filiformis were found to be active against Trypanosoma brucei.
2015, Dr. Abdul Ghani Hussain, Nature’s Medicine: A collection of Medicinal Plants from Malaysia’s Rainforest
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