Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
2022
Rie Tanaka, Maiko Kawamura, Sakumi Mizutani et al.
3 citations
Arylcyclohexylamines are a category of substances to which the anesthetic ketamine belongs. The arylcyclohexylamines have been reported to act as antagonists of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. An analog of ketamine, 2-(ethylamino)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-cyclohexanone (methoxetamine; MXE), has been controlled as a narcotic in Japan and overdoses of MXE have been reported to cause health...
Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
2016
Masahiko Funada
Cases of people experiencing disturbed consciousness or dyspnea, causing traffic accidents, or requiring ambulance transport to hospital due to abuse of law-evading chemical substances have become a serious social problem in Japan. Most law-evading herbal products are marketed as incense or herbs and consist of finely chopped, dry vegetative matter mixed with chemical substances (drugs)....
Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
August 1, 2009
Ruri Kikura-Hanajiri, Takuro Maruyama, Akinori Miyashita et al.
15 citations
Voacanga africana (Apocynaceae) is a small tropical African tree. The root bark and seeds of this tree contain a number of alkaloids, including ibogaine (a hallucinogenic/aphrodisiac compound in bark), tabersonine (a major constituteent of seeds) and other voacanga alkaloids, traditionally used in Africa for religious purposes. Recently, some kinds of products containing this plant (root bark...
Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
2008
Takuro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Kamakura, Ruri Kikura-Hanajiri et al.
14 citations
Ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC)/mass spectrometry (MS) analysis was performed to investigate whether commercial Salvia cultivars available in the Japanese market contain salvinorin A (1), which is an hallucinogen present in magic mint (Salvia divinorum) prior to the regulation of S. divinorum by the Japanese Pharmaceutical Affairs Law. In addition, a previously reported method to...
Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
September 1, 2006
Kayo Doi, Maki Miyazawa, Hisashi Fujii et al.
Drugs that have a pharmacological effect similar to legal drugs such as narcotics and stimulants are available in the market and widely used. 5-methoxy-N,N-di-iso-propyl-tryptamine (5MeO-DIPT) and alpha-methyl-tryptamine (AMT) were categorized as narcotics and were specified as legal drugs in April 2005, and also 2,5-dimethoxy-4-n-propylthiophenethylamine (4C-T-7) and...