Hypaphorine, an indole alkaloid from Erythrina velutina, induced sleep on normal mice

Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3992-3994

  Ozawa, Masaaki ^a   Honda, Kazuki ^a   Nakai, Izumi ^a   Kishida, Akio ^a   Ohsaki, Ayumi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythrina velutina; Hypaphorine; Indole alkaloid; Medicinal plant; Non REM; Sleep induced

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; ERYTHRINA ALKALOID; HYPAPHORINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERYTHRINA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP TIME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUG DESIGN; ERYTHRINA; INDOLE ALKALOIDS; INDOLES; MICE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; TIME FACTORS;

ERYTHRINA VELUTINA; FABACEAE; MUS;

EID: 47149107735     PISSN: 0960894X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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