Traditional medicine caters for about 80% of the health care needs of many rural
populations around the world, especially in developing countries. In addition, plant-derived …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by an infectious novel strain
of coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

Cryptolepine hydrochloride is an indoloquinoline alkaloid isolated from the roots of
Cryptolepis sanguinolenta. It is characterized by a multiplicity of host-mediated biological …

Laboratories around the world are challenged by the task of either verifying chemical
structures or elucidating the chemical structures of unknowns; each structure verified or …

Using an ethnobotanical approach in combination with in vivo-guided fractionation as a
means for lead discovery, cryptolepine was isolated as an antihyperglycemic component of …

The roots of the indigenous West African shrub Cryptolepis sanguinolenta have proved to be
a rich source of indoloquinoline alkaloids. To date, all of the alkaloids isolated have been …

Traditional medicinal practices play a key role in health care systems in countries with
developing economies. The aim of this survey was to validate the use of traditional medicine …

From the alkaloidal fractions of the West African plant Cryptolepis san-guinolenta
(Asclepiadaceae), two alkaloids were purified: one was identified as the known …

The tetracyclic heteroaromatic compounds cryptolepine, isocryptolepine and
neocryptolepine are all naturally occurring indoloquinoline alkaloids isolated from the shrub …

An extract of Cryptolepis sanguinolenta yielded five alkaloids. Twoof these were the known
compounds cryptolepine [11 and quindoline [2]. Three of the compounds have not been …