Rauwolfia

Rating programs Rational design Rational drug discovery Rauwolfia serpentina Rauwolscine [131-03-3]... 

Neuronal Norepinephrine Depleting Agents. Reserpine (Table 6) is the most active alkaloid derived from Rauwolfia serpentina. The principal antihypertensive mechanism of action primarily results from depletion of norepinephrine from peripheral sympathetic nerves and the brain adrenergic neurons. The result is a drastic decrease in the amount of norepinephrine released from these neurons, leading to decrease in vascular tone and lowering of blood pressure. Reserpine also depletes other transmitters including epinephrine, serotonin [50-67-9] dopamine [51-61-6] ... 

Raymond-Hamet has given much attention to the action of the Rauwolfia alkaloids. Using Siddiqui s ajrhalinine, he found that it provokes hypotension accompanied by renal dilatation and exerts a true sympathi-colytic action. 1 Ajmaline and serpentine also induce hypotension and a decrease in intestinal action serpentinine diminishes the renal constrictive action of adrenaline, but does not alter its hypertensive effects. ... 

This review is an attempt to collect under one heading and to present in a systematic manner the large body of work which deals with the chemistry of the carboline ring systems. Some three hundred papers in this field have been published during the last decade, more than twice as many as appeared during the preceding fifty years. The renewed interest in the chemistry of the carbolines is due in no small measure to the discovery of serotonin and to the recent developments in the chemistry and pharmacology of the Rauwolfia and related alkaloids. 

The 3,4,5-trimethoxycinnamic ester of methyl reserpate is also present in Rauwolfia plants and obtainable in purified form therefrom by extraction as described in U.S, Patents 2,974,144 and 2,876,228. 

Rauwolfia plants, by extraction Deserpidine Rescinnamine Reserpine... 

Many alkaloids have pronounced biological properties, and a substantial number of the pharmaceutical agents used today are derived from naturally occurring amines. As a few examples, morphine, an analgesic agent, is obtained from the opium poppy Papaver somnifemm. Cocaine, both an anesthetic and a central nervous system stimulant, is obtained front the coca bush Erythroxylon coca, endemic to upland rain forest areas of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil. Reserpine, a tranquilizer and antihypertensive, comes from powdered roots of the semitropical plant Rauwolfia serpentina. Ephedrine, a bronchodilator and decongestant, is obtained front the Chinese plant Ephedra sinica. 

Metatensin Tablets—trichlormethiazide, reserpine Minizide—polythiazide, prazosin Prinzide—hydrochlorotliiazide, lisinopril Rauzide Tablets—rauwolfia, bendroflumethiazide Regroton—chlorthalidone, reserpine Salutensin Tablets—hydroflumethiazide, reserpine Salutensin-Demi—hydrochlorothiazide, reseqiine Ser-Ap-Es—hydrochlorotliiazide, reseqiine, hydralazine HC1... 

By extraction from the pulverized roots of Rauwolfia serpentina (L.) Beuth. 

Rauwolfia- 314 steroid- 206 Strychnos- 314 Synclisia- 314 Tabernaemontana- 314 Veratrum- 420 Alkanol amines 284... 

Radioisotopes, half-lives 49 Raffinose 158, 181 -184, 203, 204, 331 Rare earths cations 144 Ratanhia phenols 288 Rauwolfia alkaloids 314 Reaction chromatography 56 IT Reagents 144 IT... 

Most DA (up to 75%) is stored in vesicles like NA. This can be disrupted by the rauwolfia alkaloid, reserpine and by drugs like tetrabenazine. It should be emphasised that these drugs deplete the neurons of amines by stopping their incorporation into... 

In 1952 reserpine, an alkaloid extract from the Indian snakewort plant, Rauwolfia serpentina, which had been used in that country to treat madness , was first tried in schizophrenia. The beneficial impact on patients and the hospital wards was dramatic, as was that a year later of chlorpromazine, a phenothiazine derivative and haloperidol, a butyrophenone. These latter two drugs and closely related derivatives remained the mainstay of therapy for almost 40 years. 

Reserpine A drug extracted from Rauwolfia serpentina which was once clinically used in the treatment of essential hypertension and schizophrenia. 

Bein HJ (1982). Rauwolfia and biological psychiatry. Trends in Neurosciences, 5, 37-39. 

Salutaridinol 7-0-acetyltransferase catalyzes the conversion of the phenanthrene alkaloid salutaridinol to salutaridinol-7-Oacetate, the immediate precursor of thebaine along the morphine biosynthetic pathway in P. somniferum (Fig. 10.7).26 Acetyl CoA-dependent acetyltransferases have an important role in plant alkaloid metabolism. They are involved in the synthesis of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids in medicinal plant species such as Rauwolfia serpentina. In this plant, the enzyme vinorine synthase transfers an acetyl group from acetyl CoA to 16-epi-vellosimine to form vinorine. This acetyl transfer is accompanied by a concomitant skeletal rearrangement from the sarpagan- to the ajmalan-type (reviewed in2). An acetyl CoA-dependent acetyltransferase also participates in vindoline biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus, the source of the chemotherapeutic dimeric indole alkaloid vinblastine (reviewed in2). Acetyl CoA deacetylvindoline 4-O-acetyltransferase catalyzes the last step in vindoline biosynthesis. A cDNA encoding acetyl CoA deacetylvindoline 4-0-acetyltransferase was recently successfully isolated.27... 

The isolation of a trace alkaloid of Rauwolfia oreogiton Mgf. has been reported (63) and provisionally identified as 19,20-dehydroadirubine acetate. However, the structure determination needs more confirmation. 

Pseudo Series. Besides the previously known pseudoyohimbine (88), there is only one additional alkaloid found in Rauwolfia capuroni Mgf. (68) that belongs to the pseudo series, namely, 11-methoxypseudoyohimbine (89). 

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