"Harmine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Alkaloid isolated from seeds of Peganum harmala L., Zygophyllaceae. It is identical to banisterine, or telepathine, from Banisteria caapi and is one of the active ingredients of hallucinogenic drinks made in the western Amazon region from related plants. It has no therapeutic use, but (as banisterine) was hailed as a cure for postencephalitic Parkinson disease in the 1920's.
| Descriptor ID |
D006247
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.132.436.477 D03.633.100.473.402.477 D03.633.300.154.344
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| Concept/Terms |
Harmine- Harmine
- Yageine
- Telepathine
- Banisterine
- Leucoharmine
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Harmine" by people in Profiles.
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Tarpley M, Oladapo HO, Strepay D, Caligan TB, Chdid L, Shehata H, Roques JR, Thomas R, Laudeman CP, Onyenwoke RU, Darr DB, Williams KP. Identification of harmine and ?-carboline analogs from a high-throughput screen of an approved drug collection; profiling as differential inhibitors of DYRK1A and monoamine oxidase A and for in vitro and in vivo anti-cancer studies. Eur J Pharm Sci. 2021 Jul 01; 162:105821.
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Zhu H, Halaris A, Piletz JE. Atypical [(3)H]clonidine binding sites in human caudate and platelets on cryostat-cut sections. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Dec; 1009:296-301.