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Geissospermum laeve

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Geissospermum laeve. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Geissospermum laeve (Vell.) Miers

8Constituent measurements
0Safety records
6Cited sources
0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Alkaloids2
  • Indole alkaloids2
  • Carboline alkaloids1
  • Flavopereirine1
  • Geissoschizoline1
  • Geissospermine1

Plant parts

  • Bark6
  • Unspecified2

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction8

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
AlkaloidsBarkSolvent extraction≤ 0.008 PercentHPLC-MS/MSResolve DOI
AlkaloidsBarkSolvent extraction≥ 0.0013 PercentHPLC-MS/MSResolve DOI
FlavopereirineBarkSolvent extractionTraditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)Resolve DOI
GeissoschizolineUnspecifiedSolvent extractionTraditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)Resolve DOI
GeissospermineBarkSolvent extractionNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Resolve DOI
Indole alkaloidsUnspecifiedSolvent extractionTraditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)Resolve DOI
Indole alkaloidsBarkSolvent extraction9.45 GramTraditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)Resolve DOI
Carboline alkaloidsBarkSolvent extractionUnspecifiedNo resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

  1. HUGHES, NA., RAPOPORT, H. FLAVOPEREIRINE, AN ALKALOID FROM GEISSOSPERMUM-VELLOSII. Journal of the american chemical society, 1958, vol. 80, no. 7, p. 1604-1609. DOI
  2. Lima, Joselia A., Costa, Rodrigo Saar., Epifanio, Rosangela A., Castro, Newton G., Rocha, Monica S., Pinto, Angelo C. Geissospermum vellosii stembark Anticholinesterase activity and improvement of scopolamine-induced memory deficits . Pharmacology biochemistry and behavior, 2009, vol. 92, no. 3, p. 508-513. DOI
  3. RAPOPORT, H., MOORE, RE. ALKALOIDS OF GEISSOSPERMUM VELLOSSI - ISOLATION AND STRUCTURE DETERMINATIONS OF VELLOSIMINE, VELLOSIMINOL, AND GEISSOLOSIMINE . Journal of organic chemistry, 1962, vol. 27, no. 9, p. 2981-&. DOI
  4. Bemis, Debra L., Capodice, Jillian L., Desai, Manisha., Katz, Aaron E., Buttyan, Ralph. beta-carboline alkaloid-enriched extract from the amazonian rain forest tree pao pereira suppresses prostate cancer cells. . Journal of the society for integrative oncology, 2009, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 59-65.
  5. Ramos, Alexander E. Fox., Alcover, Charlotte., Evanno, Laurent., Maciuk, Alexandre., Litaudon, Marc., Duplais, Christophe., Bernadat, Guillaume., Gallard, Jean-Francois., Jullian, Jean-Christophe., Mouray, Elisabeth., Grellier, Philippe., Loiseau, Philippe M., Pomel, Sebastien., Poupon, Erwan., Champy, Pierre., Beniddir, Mehdi A. Revisiting Previously Investigated Plants: A Molecular Networking Based Study of Geissospermum laeve . Journal of natural products, 2017, vol. 80, no. 4, p. 1007-1014. DOI
  6. MOORE, RE., RAPOPORT, H. GEISSOVELLINE - NEW ALKALOID FROM GEISSOSPERMUM-VELLOSII. Journal of organic chemistry, 1973, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 215-230. DOI

Boundary

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