Digitalis purpurea Purple foxglove

Digoxin Steroid Increases heart muscle contraction Digitalis purpurea (purple foxglove)... 

Digitalis purpurea Purple foxglove, lady s foxglove Digoxigenin source Leaves, seeds 1.25... 

Digitoxigenin is a heart stimulant obtained from the purple foxglove Digitalis purpurea and used in the treatment of heart disease. Draw the three-dimensional conformation of digitoxigenin, and identify the two —OH groups as axial or equatorial. 

Sources of these drugs include white and purple foxglove Digitalis lanata and D purpurea) and numerous other temperate zone and tropical plants. Certain toads have skin glands capable of elaborating bufadienolides, which differ only slightly from the cardenolides. 

Common foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) are actually biennials that self-sow so well chat they function as perennials. Bell-like flowers in shades of purple, pink, and white cover... 

Van der Krol, D. Schuphan, I. Schmidt, B. Metabolism of [ring-2,6-NCJParathion in Plant Cell Suspension Cultures of Carrot (Daucuc carota), Purple Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). Soybean, Thorn Apple (Datura stramonium) and Wheat (Triticum aestivum), Pestic. Sci. 1995 45, 143-52. 

Digitalis is a preparation made from the dried seeds and leaves of the purple foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, a plant native to southern and central Europe and cultivated in the United States. The preparation is a mixture of several active components, including digitalin. Digitalis is used in medicine to increase the force of myocardial contraction and as a conduction depressant to decrease heart rate (the heart pumps more forcefully but less often). 

The first steroidal saponin, digitonin, was isolated by Schmiedeberg (1875) from digitahn , an industrially produced extract obtained from the leaves of the purple foxglove. Digitalis purpurea L. Its sapogenin digitogenin was separated by Kiliani... 

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