Curarea

Candicusine (468), C36H3gN206, for which no instrumental data are cited, was obtained from Curarea candicans. The structure was suggested from comparison of MS, NMR, and CD patterns with those of limacusine (105) (544). 

The title alkaloids, C H NjO, were isolated from Curarea candicans by TLC. The complete structures were deduced by NMR NOEDS (544),... 

Curarea candicans Hemandezine A-oxide, krukovine, limacine, limacusine, tetrandrine A-2 -monoxide 544... 

Chondrodendron candicans (Rich.) Sandw. = Chondrodendron limaciifolium (Diels) Mold. = Curarea candicans (Rich.) Bameby Krukoff [4]... 

Menispermaceae contains many medicinal and toxic plants. Some of the South American Menispermaceae were used by native Indians for their curare activity [7]. The western world was introduced to the muscle relaxants by the Spaniards, who encountered these arrow poisons in 1514 [7, 95]. The main South American Menispermaceae species used to prepare pot/tube curare are Chondrodendron tomentosum, and three of the four known curarea genus, Curarea candicans, C. tecunarum and C. toxicofera [7]. 

Curarea candicans (L.C. Rich) Bameby and R Knikoff (Menispermaceae)[127-129]... 

On the other hand, and as everyone knows, there are any number of plants that are highly toxic, even deadly. Every savvy North American hiker knows to stay away from poison ivy Toxicodendron spp.) when walking in the woods. The death sentence imposed on Socrates by an Athenian jury 2,400 years ago was carried out with a fatal dose of poison hemlock Conium maculatum). The poison curare, a blend of several equatorial rain forest plants (e.g., species of Chondrodendron, Curarea and Strychnos) is used by some South American hunter cultures to make their arrows more deadly (Schultes and Raffauf 1990). And in... 

Abuta Barrere ex Aublet, Chondrodendron Ruiz et Pavdn, Cissampelos L., Curarea... 

Curarea is a fairly recent segregate from Chondrodendron based on differences in perianth and fruit characters (Bameby and Krukoff 1971). 

Chondodendron, Cissampelos, Curarea, Cyclea, EjAnetrum, Umaciopas, Sciadotenia, Sinomenium, Stephemia, Stsiclisla Cissampelos, Cyclea... 

Table IV. Number of BisBIQ alkaloids isolated from the gtmeaAlbertisia, Chondodendron, Curarea, Epinetrum and Synclisia.

Strychnos is the only genus of the Loganiaceae whose species are involved in the making of curare (Table 1.1). On the other hand, representatives of several genera of Menispermaceae have been utilized—not only species of Chondrodendron and Curarea, which are known to be active, but also species of Sciadotenia, Abuta, Anomospermum, Telitoxicum, as well as Cissampelos (Table 1.2) there is a dearth of information about the activity of these latter genera. 

Tikuna curare Strychnos castelnaeana Curarea tecunarum )... 

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