alkaloids

• “Batrachotoxin alkaloids from passerine birds: a second toxic bird genus (Ifrita kowaldi) from New Guinea.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

• “This property is indicated by the name alkaloids, which signifies alkali-like.”

  An Elementary Study of Chemistry

• “The alkaloids are a heterogeneous group, with diverse chemical structures and this leads to problems of definition of both the group and their effects on livestock.”

  Chapter 4

• “A few toxic compounds belonging chiefly to the class termed alkaloids have, however, been definitely isolated.”

  Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

• “Recognized by many names in various international cuisines, eggplant is botanically classified as a berry that has lots of edible soft seeds containing nicotinoid alkaloids, which is a close relative of tobacco.”

  News & Politics

• “Research published last year by Valerie C. Clark of Cornell University showed that poison dart frogs (Dendrobates species) and their Madagascar counterparts, the Mantella frogs, sequester toxic skin chemicals, called alkaloids, from the ants they eat.”

  Mongabay.com News

• “Low leaf intakes may be associated with high leaf digestibility if the leaves contain appetite depressants such as alkaloids and tannins.”

  Chapter 7

• “Toxic compounds such as alkaloids and cyanogenic glycosides do not occur in Calliandra spp. but a range of insecticidal, non-protein, sulphur-containing amino acids and rare imino acids have been found in the seeds and seedlings of a number of species.”

  Chapter 7

• “ALP is an enzyme that removes phosphate groups from biomolecules, such as alkaloids, proteins and nucleotides and finds wide application in bioanalysis.”

  innovations-report

• “In Munich, Willstätter turned attention from his classic work on alkaloids and plant pigments to explore enzyme chemistry - a time of major breakthroughs in a field that would be critical to the development of modern biochemistry.”

  Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms

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