Gina S Stewart

Secondary metabolites from three Florida sponges with antidepressant activity.

Journal of Natural Products January 25, 2008 Anna J Kochanowska, Karumanchi V Rao, Suzanne Childress et al.

Brominated indole alkaloids are a common class of metabolites reported from sponges of the order Verongida. Herein we report the isolation, structure determination, and activity of metabolites from three Florida sponges, namely, Verongula rigida (order Verongida, family Aplysinidae), Smenospongia aurea, and S. cerebriformis (order Dictyoceratida, family Thorectidae). All three species were...