Actinodaphnine
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Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Actinodaphnine is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) An alkaloid isolated from various plants, including Actinodaphne hookeri, Cassytha filiformis and Litsea monopetala (syn. Litsea polyantha), and investigated for its medicinal properties.
Meaning
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid isolated from various plants, including Actinodaphne hookeri, Cassytha filiformis and Litsea monopetala (syn. Litsea polyantha), and investigated for its medicinal properties.
Example Sentences
The phenolic aporphine alkaloid actinodaphnine earlier isolated from Actinodaphne hookeri has been reisolated from Litsea polyantha.
Three aporphine alkaloids (actinodaphnine, cassythine and dicentrine) isolated from C. filiformis were found to be active against Trypanosoma brucei.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include actinodaphine, daphnandrine, daphnoline, cassythine, actinohodin, dicentrine.
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