β-Carboline alkaloids: biochemical and pharmacological functions

R Cao, W Peng, Z Wang, A Xu - Current medicinal chemistry, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
β-Carboline alkaloids are a large group of natural and synthetic indole alkaloids with
different degrees of aromaticity, some of which are widely distributed in nature, including …

Privileged scaffolds as MAO inhibitors: Retrospect and prospects

AC Tripathi, S Upadhyay, S Paliwal, SK Saraf - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This review aims to be a comprehensive, authoritative, critical, and readable review of
general interest to the medicinal chemistry community because it focuses on the …

Coffee constituents

A Farah - Coffee: Emerging health effects and disease …, 2012 - books.google.com
Coffee has been for decades the most commercialized food product and most widely
consumed beverage in the world. Since the opening of the first coffee house in Mecca at the …

β-Carboline alkaloids in Peganum harmala and inhibition of human monoamine oxidase (MAO)

T Herraiz, D González, C Ancín-Azpilicueta… - Food and Chemical …, 2010 - Elsevier
Peganum harmala L. is a multipurpose medicinal plant increasingly used for psychoactive
recreational purposes (Ayahuasca analog). Harmaline, harmine, harmalol, harmol and …

Mechanism of deoxynivalenol mediated gastrointestinal toxicity: Insights from mitochondrial dysfunction

S Wang, K Wu, D Xue, C Zhang, SA Rajput… - Food and Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin predominantly produced by Fusarium genus, and
widely contaminates cereals and associated products all over the world. The intestinal …

β-Carboline as a privileged scaffold for multitarget strategies in Alzheimer's disease therapy

A Beato, A Gori, B Boucherle… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The natural β-carboline alkaloids display similarities with neurotransmitters that can be
favorably exploited to design bioactive and bioavailable drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Identification, formation, and occurrence of perlolyrine: A β-carboline alkaloid with a furan moiety in foods

T Herraiz, A Peña, A Salgado - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2023 - ACS Publications
β-Carbolines are naturally occurring bioactive alkaloids found in foods and in vivo. This
research reports the identification, characterization, mechanism of formation, and …

Bioactive β-carbolines in food: A review

P Piechowska, R Zawirska-Wojtasiak… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Harman and norharman, two neuroactive β-carbolines, are present in several plants and in
thermally processed foods. They exhibited a wide spectrum of biological and …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic coffee and caffeine ingestion effects on the cognitive function and antioxidant system of rat brains

RV Abreu, EM Silva-Oliveira, MFD Moraes… - Pharmacology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Coffee is a popular beverage consumed worldwide and its effect on health protection has
been well studied throughout literature. This study investigates the effect of chronic coffee …

Monoamine oxidase and tobacco dependence

A Lewis, JH Miller, RA Lea - Neurotoxicology, 2007 - Elsevier
Tobacco smoking is a leading cause of preventable death around the world, and there are
major public health and research efforts in many countries aimed at reducing its usage …