Antonio Salgado

Identification, occurrence and activity of quinazoline alkaloids in Peganum harmala.

Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association May 2017 Tomás Herraiz, Hugo Guillén, Vicente J Arán et al.

Peganum harmala L. is a medicinal plant from the Mediterranean region and Asia currently used for recreative psychoactive purposes (Ayahuasca analogue), and increasingly involved in toxic cases. Its psychopharmacological and toxicological properties are attributed to quinazoline and β-carboline alkaloids. In this work three major quinazoline alkaloids were isolated from P. harmala extracts and...