Planta Med 1984; 50(6): 478-480
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-969777
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Pharmacological Actions of Analogues of Feruloylhistamine, an Imidazole Alkaloid of Ephedra Roots1

Hiroshi Hikino2 , Yoshinobu Kiso2 , Minoru Ogata2 , Chohachi Konno2 , Kazuo Aisaka3 , Hiroaki Kubota3 , Nakako Hirose3 , Takafumi Ishihara3
  • 2Pharmaceutical Institute, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama, Sendai, Japan
  • 3Suntory Institute for Biomedical Research, 1-1-1, Wakayamadai, Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka, Japan
1 Studies on the constituents of Ephedra, Part 17, and liver protective drugs, Part 20. Also Part 74 in the series on the validity of the Oriental medicines
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1984

1984

Publication Date:
26 February 2007 (online)

Abstract

Analogues of feruloylhistamine, an imidazole alkaloid of Ephedra roots, have been prepared and shown to exert hypotensive, histidine decarboxylase inhibiting and antihepatotoxic actions.