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Autophagy protects against neural cell death induced by piperidine alkaloids present in Prosopis juliflora (Mesquite)

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 89 (1), 2017
ABSTRACT Prosopis juliflora is a shrub that has been used to feed animals and humans. However, a synergistic action of piperidine alkaloids has been suggested to be responsible for neurotoxic damage observed in animals. We investigated the involvement of programmed cell death (PCD) and autophagy on the m...

Cytotoxic effects of alkaloids on cervical carcinoma cell lines: a review

Cervical cancer is the fourth type of women neoplasia, with thousands of new cases annually. It is closely related to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, which has more than 13 oncogenic types, among them HPV 16 and 18 are implicated in 70% of cervical carcinoma cases. Alkaloids are nitrogenated and na...

Esparteína y lupanina: dos alcaloides quinolizidínicos de las especies lupinus eremonomos y L. meridanus M
Sparteine and lupanine two quinolizidine alkaloids from lupinos eremonomos S. and L.meridanus M

Los géneros de la familia leguminosae se caracterizan por contener alcaloides con esqueleto quinolizidínico. Entre ellos se encuentra el género Lupinos, el cual está representado en Venezuela por varias especies, poco estudiadas botánicamente. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados obtenidos de...