Examples are the local anesthetic and stimulant cocaine; the psychedelic psilocin; the stimulant caffeine; nicotine; the analgesic morphine; the antibacterial berberine; the anticancer compound vincristine; the antihypertension agent reserpine; the cholinomimeric galatamine; the spasmolysis agent atropine; the vasodilator vincamine; the anti-arrhythmia compound quinidine; the anti-asthma therapeutic ephedrine; and the antimalarial drug quinine.
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NF-?B is part of an inflammatory process, and it is believed that berberine, a component of the two herbs, is responsible for the effect . " Phellodendron amurense " also inhibited proinflammatory iNOS and TNF-alpha activity in a glial cell line and has topical anti-inflammatory activity . " Phellodendron wilsonii " was found to have a hepatoprotective activity in carbon tetrachloride treated rats.
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Species identified in Nigeria contains several types of alkaloids including benzophenanthridines ( nitidine, dihydronitidine, oxynitidine, fagaronine, dihydroavicine, chelerythrine, dihydrochelerythrine, methoxychelerythrine, norchelerythrine, oxychelerythrine, decarine and fagaridine ), furoquinolines ( dictamine, 8-methoxydictamine, skimmianine, 3-dimethylallyl-4-methoxy-2-quinolone ), carbazoles ( 3-methoxycarbazole, glycozoline ), aporphines ( berberine, tembetarine, magnoflorine, M-methyl-corydine ), canthinones ( 6-canthinone ), acridones ( 1-hydroxy-3-methoxy-10-methylacridon-9-one, 1-hydroxy-10-methylacridon-9-one, zanthozolin ), and aromatic and aliphatic amides.
