Alkaloids in a sentence

The nicotine (which, incidentally, does not have the aforementioned alkaloids in them -- you can get whole-alkaloid E-liquid, but it's specialty stuff and not recommended as the minor alkaloids are carcinogenic) feeds the chemical addiction.

Compared with most other classes of natural compounds, alkaloids are characterized by a great structural diversity and there is no uniform classification of alkaloids.

He specifically pointed to two former Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries, Noramco and Tasmanian Alkaloids, which produced much of the raw opium used by other manufacturers to produce the drugs.

Moretti adds that “the family of nightshade vegetables have anti-nutrients (aka alkaloids), making the ability to absorb nutrients challenging if not prepared correctly”—cooking them helps, she says.

Poppy seeds do not normally contain opiates and government investigators suspect that a batch of seeds supplied to bakeries could have been contaminated from the latex sap of the plant, which contains alkaloids.

Precursors of the natural alkaloids with small modifications to their structures were added to this liquid medium.

The cream-color flesh of garden egg has a pleasantly bitter taste and this is due to the presence of small amounts of nicotinoid alkaloids it contains.

He’s also seen them spiked with increased concentrations of 7-hydroxymitragynine, the more addictive of the plant’s naturally occurring alkaloids.

Leaves, bark, roots, stems, and even unripe berries contain harmful levels of toxins including some cyanogenic glycosides and toxic alkaloids.

Adding nitrogen fertilizer to the soil will increase the concentration of alkaloids present in the plant.

Alkaloid production in plants appeared to have evolved in response to feeding by herbivorous animals; however, some animals have evolved the ability to detoxify alkaloids.

Alkaloids are also known to regulate plant growth.

Alkaloids, glucosides, titratable acids, and vitamin C are also present.

Anti-microtubule agents Vinca alkaloids prevent the assembly of microtubules, whereas taxanes prevent their disassembly.

Applications In medicine Medical use of alkaloid-containing plants has a long history, and, thus, when the first alkaloids were isolated in the 19th century, they immediately found application in clinical practice.

Ayahuasca analogues In modern Europe and North America, ayahuasca analogues are often prepared using non-traditional plants which contain the same alkaloids.

California poppy contains a different class of alkaloids: citation citation "An aqueous alcohol extract of Eschscholzia californica has been evaluated for benzodiazepine, neuroleptic, antidepressant, antihistaminic and analgesic properties.

Cat's claw has two varieties depending on whether the alkaloids have four rings or five.

Dewick, p. 382 Some alkaloids do not have the carbon skeleton characteristic of their group.

From the solution obtained at the last extraction step, the alkaloids are precipitated by either ammonium hydroxide or sodium carbonate.