Tobacco is also in the nightshade family. Nightshades are unique because they contain small amounts of alkaloids. Alkaloids are chemicals that are mainly found in plants. For something to be ...

Ergot alkaloids are a group of headache medicines that include dihydroergotamine (Migranal, Trudhesa, others) and ergotamine (Cafergot, Ergomar, Ergostat, others). These drugs are used only to ...

Massospora consumes cicadas from the inside out then drives them to mate—in the process making infected males more attractive to both sexes. With a plug of yellow spores where its abdomen used ...

Guitarist Christian Münzner has split with Alkaloid after 10 years, and is being replaced by his fellow Eternity's End bandmate Justin Hombach. Alkaloid is now Hombach, guitarist and vocalist ...

Its complex effects have been tied to mitragynine and other alkaloids — chemical compounds containing nitrogen — that act on systems in the brain and body. The Food and Drug Administration has ...

The protein, dubbed alkaloid binding globulin, or ABG, might pick up alkaloids from a frog’s blood or intestines and transport the toxins to the skin as a chemical defense, researchers report ...

Smokers treated with a naturally occurring plant-based alkaloid were five times more likely to remain smoke-free 3 months after treatment compared with those who received placebo, results of a ...

The hair contained psychoactive alkaloids, which are found naturally in some plants and can induce altered states of consciousness. Archaeologists think that ancient humans may have ingested them ...

The details behind a global price fixing operation have been revealed after a Queensland farming company was caught controlling the sale of a native bush needed for popular medicines. For five ...

Kate Dixon accidentally grew alkaloid poppies at her flower farm near Hobart The flowers were onsold to commercial florists Authorities were alerted to the alkaloid flowers via social media Ms ...

However when harvested early, some of the poppy latex (which includes opium alkaloids such as morphine, codeine and thebaine) can seep into the seed ‘coats’. “Individuals wishing to extract ...