Natural products (NPs) are important sources of clinical drugs due to their structural diversity
and biological prevalidation. However, the structural complexity of NPs leads to synthetic …

The prevalence of nitrogen containing heterocycles in natural products and pharmaceuticals
is a doubtless fact. In this review, recent applications of a stereoselective aza-Michael …

Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are prototypical cation-selective, ligand-
gated ion channels that mediate fast neurotransmission in the central and peripheral …

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) α4 and β2 subunits assemble in two alternate
stoichiometries to produce (α4β2) 2 α4 and (α4β2) 2 β2, which display different agonist …

Termites (Isoptera), which are a suborder of the cockroaches, are the oldest eusocial insects
[1–3]. It is assumed that they diverged from the Cryptocercoidae, woodfeeding cockroaches …

Given their therapeutic activity, natural products have been used in traditional medicines
throughout the centuries. The growing interest of the scientific community in …

This review describes the main characteristics of odorant‐binding proteins (OBP s) for
homology modelling and presents a summary of structure prediction studies on insect OBP …

Erythrina L. genus (Fabaceae) comprises about 115 species, and it has been extensively
studied, mainly because of its alkaloids, which have pharmacological properties …

The synthesis of a new series of Erythrina alkaloid analogues and their pharmacological
characterization at various nicotine acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subtypes are described …

Leishmaniasis is one of the World's most problematic diseases in developing countries.
Traditional medicines to treat leishmaniasis have serious side effects, as well as significant …