High impact information on Heliotropium

• The outbreak was caused by consumption of bread made from wheat contiminated with seeds of Heliotropium plants, which were shown to contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids [1].
• Isolation and pharmacological action of heliotrine, the major alkaloid of Heliotropium indicum seeds [2].
• Relationships between the structural characteristics of flavonoids isolated from the resinous exudate of Heliotropium sinuatum and their antioxidant activity were studied [3].
• Absolute configuration of a tetrahydrophenanthrene from Heliotropium ovalifolium by LC-NMR of its Mosher esters [4].
• Heliotropamide, a novel oxopyrrolidine-3-carboxamide from Heliotropium ovalifolium [5].

Biological context of Heliotropium

• Wound healing effects of Heliotropium indicum, Plumbago zeylanicum and Acalypha indica in rats [6].

Associations of Heliotropium with chemical compounds

• Heliotropium rotundifolium was shown to contain, in addition to the previously isolated europine [1], three other alkaloids: heliotrine [2], lasiocarpine [3], and a new alkaloid identified as 5'-acetyleuropine [4] [7].
• Two pyrrolizidine alkaloids, megalanthonine (1) and lycopsamine (2), have been isolated from Heliotropium megalanthum [8].
• A new tetrahydrophenanthrene (1, (1R,2R)-1-hydroxy-2-methoxy-6,9-dimethyl-2,3-dihydrophenanthren-4(1H)-one (heliophenanthrone)) has been isolated from the aerial parts of Heliotropium ovalifolium [4].
• 9-Angeloylretronecine N-oxide from heliotropium bursiferum [9].
• Indicine-N-oxide: the antitumor principle of Heliotropium indicum [10].

Gene context of Heliotropium

• Poisonous plants contaminating edible ones and toxic substances in plant foods. Part 3. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids from Heliotropium digynum Forssk. (= H. luteum, Poir.) [11].

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