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actinodaphnine

actinodaphnine noun: an alkaloid isolated from various plants, including Actinodaphne hookeri, Cassytha filiformis and Litsea monopetala (syn. Litsea polyantha), and investigated for its medicinal properties.

Noun

actinodaphnine (uncountable)

  1. An alkaloid isolated from various plants, including Actinodaphne hookeri, Cassytha filiformis and Litsea monopetala (syn. Litsea polyantha), and investigated for its medicinal properties.
    • The phenolic aporphine alkaloid actinodaphnine earlier isolated from Actinodaphne hookeri has been reisolated from Litsea polyantha.1972, Srinivasa Rangaswami, Some Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Natural Products
    • 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...2005, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Biodiversity towards drug development, page 90

Examples of actinodaphnine in a sentence

  • Our results also showed differences in the sensitivities between the tested cell lines to neolitsine, cassythine and actinodaphnine.2005, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Biodiversity towards drug development, page 90:
  • Three aporphine alkaloids (actinodaphnine, cassythine and dicentrine) isolated from C. filiformis were found to be active against Trypanosoma brucei.2015, Dr. Abdul Ghani Hussain, Nature’s Medicine: A collection of Medicinal Plants from Malaysia’s Rainforest:

Origin of actinodaphnine

Actinodaphne + -ine

Questions about actinodaphnine

What does actinodaphnine mean?
Actinodaphnine means an alkaloid isolated from various plants, including Actinodaphne hookeri, Cassytha filiformis and Litsea monopetala (syn. Litsea polyantha), and investigated for its medicinal properties.
How do you use actinodaphnine in a sentence?
Our results also showed differences in the sensitivities between the tested cell lines to neolitsine, cassythine and actinodaphnine.
What part of speech is actinodaphnine?
Actinodaphnine is a noun.

Words near actinodaphnine in the dictionary

  1. actinocrinite
  2. actinocrinites
  3. actinocyclid
  4. actinocyclids
  5. actinodaphine
  6. actinodaphnine
  7. actinodermatitis
  8. actinodin
  9. actinodins
  10. actinodontid
  11. actinodontids

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