cardiac glycosides

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Curare
... Cardiac glycosides, e.g., digitalis, slow the heart rate, increase cardiac output, decrease cardiac enlargement, and reduce venous pressure by working on the vagus nerve. Cardiac glycosides ...
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THE LIVESAVING FOXGLOVE
... the leaves, is a steroid glycoside called digitoxin, but there are at least thirty other cardiac glycosides, of which five are important. Digitoxin is a stimulant that improves heart tone and rhythm ...
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Floridata: Digitalis purpurea
... fairies), in Olde England, today foxglove is grown commercially for the leaves which yield powerful cardiac glycosides that strengthen and regulate heartbeat. Extreme caution must be used in administering digitalis since the ...
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Butterfly Milkweed
... of chemicals known as cardiac glycosides. It is these chemicals that are utilized by Monarch butterfly caterpillars for their own protection. As they eat milkweed they store the cardiac glycosides in their exoskeleton, making ...
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Database File for: Cancerillo - Asclepias curassavica
... stem. It is likely responsible for the spasms observed in milkweed poisoning. Additionally, several glycosides and an alkaloid have been isolated. All species of Asclepias are distasteful to livestock. ... Symptoms appear within a few hours of ingestion of a toxic dose Cancerillo also contains cardiac glycosides, which affect human's and animal's heartbeat. Other compounds found in cancerillo include ...
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Apocynaceae
... is milky and may contain toxic alkaloids or glycosides. Some of these compounds are used in conventional or traditional medicine e.g. quinine, vincristine, cardiac glycosides. Asclepias tuberosum is a traditional treatment for ...
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digitals
... a steroid which has the ability to exert a specific and powerful action on the cardiac muscle in animals, and has been used in the treatment of heart conditions ever since ... were happy. This species is the source of a cardiac drug called Lanatacide and like all other species of Foxgloves- produces other glycosides. Zones 4-9. or 7-9? (I could use ...
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Medical Alkaloid Photos
... Plants Trivia Lemnaceae Biology 101 Botany Search Economic Plant Photographs #23 Medical Glycosides, Terpenes & Alkaloids Digitalis, Strophanthus, Periwinkle, Rauvolfia, Oleander, Cerbera, Colchicum, Curare, Absinthe and Brunfelsia ... mangoes in shape and size. The foliage and fruits contain the potent cardiac glycoside cerberin and are extremely poisonous if ingested. The dried fruits (drupes) ...
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Soap Lilies In California
... water solution. Glucosides (or glycosides) are plant compounds containing glucose (or another sugar) combined with other non-sugar molecules. Upon hydrolysis saponin glycosides yield a triterpenoid or steroid ... material (precursor) for the synthesis of certain steroidal hormones (Miller, 1957). Unlike the cardiac glucosides, saponins do not affect the heart. Saponins are especially toxic to fish, ...
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Oleander, Nerium oleander
... juice contains glycosides that may affect the function of the heart; ingestion of but a single leaf can be fatal. Characteristic symptoms include nausea; vomiting; accelerated or retarded heartbeat; and cardiac arrest ...
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