Quassin is a white, bitter, crystalline substance that is the prototypical example of the family of quassinoids. It can be extracted from the quassia...
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biological activities in its tissues including the very bitter compound quassin. Therefore, it is used as an insecticide, in traditional medicine, for...
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Quassia undulata. It is the source of the quassinoids such as quassin and neo-quassin. Simalikalactone D is a quassinoid that is extracted from Quassia...
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example, (S)-(+)-carvone was used to begin a 1998 synthesis of the terpenoid quassin: Carvone forms two mirror image forms or enantiomers: R-(−)-carvone, has...
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C-19, C-20, C-22 and C-25 types. The prototypical member of the group, quassin, was first described in the 19th century from plants of the genus Quassia...
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medicine in Copenhagen. His doctoral thesis in 1775 examined medical use of quassin from the plant quassia amara. He was appointed as physician (Norwegian:...
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American herbalists in the 19th century. It contains phytochemicals, such as quassin and saponin, and ailanthone. The plant may be mildly toxic. The noxious...
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were identified including pyrethrum, rotenone, nicotine, sabadilla, and quassin. Synthetic compounds proved cheaper and far more effective than natural...
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applications as an aversive agent. Sucrose octaacetate Quercetin Brucine Quassin The threshold for stimulation of bitter taste by quinine averages a concentration...
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from Brazil, Mexico, Taiwan serotonin agonist, neuroimmunologic modulator Quassin Quassia amara various Celastrol Tripterygium wilfordii various Mitraphylline...
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