Quassin is a white, bitter, crystalline substance that is the prototypical example of the family of quassinoids. It can be extracted from the quassia...

biological activities in its tissues including the very bitter compound quassin. Therefore, it is used as an insecticide, in traditional medicine, for...

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...

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...

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...

medicine in Copenhagen. His doctoral thesis in 1775 examined medical use of quassin from the plant quassia amara. He was appointed as physician (Norwegian:...

American herbalists in the 19th century. It contains phytochemicals, such as quassin and saponin, and ailanthone. The plant may be mildly toxic. The noxious...

were identified including pyrethrum, rotenone, nicotine, sabadilla, and quassin. Synthetic compounds proved cheaper and far more effective than natural...

applications as an aversive agent. Sucrose octaacetate Quercetin Brucine Quassin The threshold for stimulation of bitter taste by quinine averages a concentration...

from Brazil, Mexico, Taiwan serotonin agonist, neuroimmunologic modulator Quassin Quassia amara various Celastrol Tripterygium wilfordii various Mitraphylline...