Planta MedicaDecember 14, 2016Sylvian Cretton, PM Allard, I Garcia-Gomez et al.
Indigenous groups of the Amazonian rainforest have used a vast array of poisons and psychoactive drugs from plant origin for centuries. There is a great variety of different species used and each group has their own recipes to prepare plant mixtures [1]. Arrow poisons are made of alkaloids extracted mainly from the Menispermaceae ( Chondrodendron spp.), as well as the Loganiaceae ( Strychnos...
Journal of Natural ProductsMarch 28, 2014Marcos Marçal Ferreira Queiroz, Emerson Ferreira Queiroz, Maria Luiza Zeraik et al.
The secondary metabolite content of Tetrapterys mucronata, a poorly studied plant that is used occasionally in Brazil for the preparation of a psychotropic plant decoction called "Ayahuasca", was determined to establish its chemical composition and to search for acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors. The ethanolic extract of the bark of T. mucronata exhibited in vitro AChE inhibition in a TLC...