Economic botany
Ephedrine imitates epinephrine in its effect on the human body. While it has medicinal uses, ephedrine can be highly toxic. ... Ephedra, a gymnosperm in the order Gnetales, is the natural source of ephedrine, the plant's principal alkaloid. Ephedrine is ...
Hydroiodic acid
... owing to its use as a reducing agent related to the production of methamphetamine from ephedrine or pseudoephedrine (recovered ... "Methamphetamine synthesis via hydriodic acid/Red phosphorus reduction of ephedrine". Forensic Science International. 48 (2): ...
Sida cordifolia
Because of its ephedrine content, it possesses psychostimulant properties, affecting the central nervous system and also the ... Adam C. Munhall; Steven W. Johnson (January 2006). "Dopamine-mediated actions of ephedrine in the rat substantia nigra". Brain ... The roots and stems contain the alkaloid ephedrine, normally observed in the different varieties of the gymnosperm genus ... Recent analyses have revealed that ephedrine and pseudoephedrine constitute the major alkaloids from the aerial parts of the ...
Carolyn Cannon-Alfred
Her dissertation was titled The nature of Cocaine desensitization of Ephedrine Pressor responses. Cannon-Alfred was hired as a ... ISBN 0-253-33603-1. Cannon, Carolyn L. (1961). The nature of Cocaine desensitization of Ephedrine Pressor responses (Ph.D. ... "Explanation of Cocaine Desensitization of Blood Pressure Responses to Ephedrine". Science. 134 (3485): 1075-1077. doi:10.1126/ ...
Seema Punia
"The Hindu : Seema Antil loses gold medal on ephedrine violation". Hinduonnet.com. 2 October 2001. Archived from the original on ...
Stig Wetzell
Testers found illegal amounts of Ephedrine in his urine sample. Wetzell's positive A- and B-samples caused Finland's 5-2 win ...
Phytotoxin
Alkaloids usually end in -ine (caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, morphine, ephedrine). Terpenes are made of water-insoluble lipids, ...
Mephedrone
Saem de Burnaga Sanchez J (1929). "Sur un homologue de l'éphédrine" [On an analogue of ephedrine]. Bulletin de la Société ... 17 It can also be produced by oxidising the ephedrine analogue 4-methylephedrine using potassium permanganate dissolved in ...
Organozinc chemistry
Catalytic processes have been developed such as Merck's ephedrine process. Propargylic alcohols can be synthesized from zinc ... conformation Zinc-acetylides are used in the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitor Efavirenz as well as in Merck's ephedrine ...
Ephedra distachya
Ephedrine, an alkaloid, is obtained from its dried branches and is used as a stimulant, often to control asthma. It was ... All parts of the plant contain up to 3% ephedrine. Although Ephedra has many benefits, side effects include insomnia and a fast ... Ephedra produces the alkaloid ephedrine, which has been shown to interfere with insect thermoregulation and may also have ...
Iodine
Phosphorus can reduce elemental iodine to hydroiodic acid, which is a reagent effective for reducing ephedrine or ... Skinner HF (1990). "Methamphetamine synthesis via hydriodic acid/red phosphorus reduction of ephedrine". Forensic Science ...
Mollipect
Ephedrine, a sympathomimetic amine with (among others) stimulant and decongestant effect. It is prescribed for coughs with ...
Ibar Pérez Corradi
He is said to have trafficked in illegal narcotics, including ephedrine. One source describes him as a member of a "cartel" ... The charges also linked Pérez Corradi with ephedrine trafficking and with a case involving tampered medicine. In 2011, Pérez ... high-profile figures investigated for ephedrine trafficking and illegal trade in medicines that were the basis for ephedrine ... It has been reported that he got rich selling ephedrine to Mexicans, and that his suppliers were named Alfredo Abrahams and ...
Methamphetamine use in Australia
Methamphetamine was synthesized in Japan in 1893 from the drug ephedrine; and since then has changed into a variety of ...
Pierre De Meyts
De Meyts, P; Lecomte, J (20 July 1967). "[Pseudo-ephedrine as sympathomimetic amine with indirect action in the rat]". Comptes ... De Meyts, P; Cession-Fossion, A (1966). "[Ephedrine as a sympathicomimetic amine with indirect action in the rat]". Comptes ...
Akira Ogata
Ogata blended the red phosphorus and ephedrine, which is derived from an Asian herbal plant, to produce an amphetamine that ... In 1893, methamphetamine was first synthesised from ephedrine by Nagayoshi Nagai and in 1919, Akira Ogata was the first to ... The procedure involved reduction of ephedrine using iodine and red phosphorus. Ogata's synthesis of methamphetamine replaced ...
Myasthenia gravis
Ephedrine seems to benefit some people more than other medications, but it has not been properly studied as of 2014. In the ... Vrinten C, van der Zwaag AM, Weinreich SS, Scholten RJ, Verschuuren JJ (December 2014). "Ephedrine for myasthenia gravis, ... Vrinten C, van der Zwaag AM, Weinreich SS, Scholten RJ, Verschuuren JJ (December 2014). "Ephedrine for myasthenia gravis, ...
Weight management
Astrup A, Toubro S (February 1993). "Thermogenic, metabolic, and cardiovascular responses to ephedrine and caffeine in man". ...
List of doping cases in athletics
The Hindu : Seema Antil loses gold medal on ephedrine violation[Usurped!]. Romanian duo retire amid doping suspicions - 2008 ...
Wendy O. Williams
She attempted suicide again in 1997 with an overdose of ephedrine. Williams died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 6, ...
Sumitomo Pharma
Among them was ephedrine, an anti-asthma drug invented by Nagai. In 1893, however, Nagai left the company and the business ...
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents
The group then began delivering ephedrine under the guise of detergent. In 2008, three accomplices of Bykov and Bely were found ... alleged to have organised the delivery of 224 kilograms of ephedrine to the country between 2003 and 2005 and laundering over ₽ ... Africa around 1997 when the club began manufacturing the drug on a mass-scale by capitalising on the ease with which ephedrine ...
Congenital myasthenic syndrome
The effect of ephedrine is delayed and the improvement occurs over a period of months. Salbutamol, a selective β(2)-adrenergic ... It has been trialed in children with positive results As of 2022, the standard of care for DOK7 CMS is either ephedrine or ... Lashley, D.; Palace, J.; Jayawant, S.; Robb, S.; Beeson, D. (2010). "Ephedrine treatment in congenital myasthenic syndrome due ... Ephedrine, a β(2)-adrenergic receptor agonist with alpha activity, has been tested on patients in clinical trials and appears ...
Pheochromocytoma
Vyakaranam AR, Crona J, Norlén O, Hellman P, Sundin A (June 2019). "11C-hydroxy-ephedrine-PET/CT in the Diagnosis of ... 11C-Hydroxy ephedrine(HED-PET). From this point forward, these imaging modalities will be referred to in their abbreviated ...
Cross-tolerance
Cocaine, amphetamines, methylphenidate and ephedrine block the reuptake of dopamine and norepinephrine. With increasing doses, ...
Methamphetamine in the United States
Methamphetamine can be produced in home laboratories using pseudoephedrine or ephedrine, which, at the time, were the active ... there are restrictions on the amount of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine one may purchase in a specified time period and further ... "Impacts of Federal ephedrine and pseudoephedrine regulations on methamphetamine-related hospital admissions". Addiction. 98 (9 ... locations become ideal for cooking of methamphetamine because of geographic isolation and an available supply of ephedrine, ...
Substituted amphetamine
This synthesis was a by-product of a search for ephedrine, a bronchodilator used to treat asthma extracted exclusively from ... Examples of substituted amphetamines are amphetamine (itself), methamphetamine, ephedrine, cathinone, phentermine, ... ephedrine and (1S,2S)-pseudoephedrine, myriad other substituted amphetamines have important pharmaceutical applications. The ... its active ingredients are alkaloids ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norephedrine (phenylpropanolamine) and norpseudoephedrine ( ...
Jonathan Nsenga
In 1997 he received a three-month doping ban for ephedrine use. After the doping ban he finished fourth at the 1998 European ...
Beta3-adrenergic agonist
Liu, YL; Toubro, S; Astrup, A; Stock, MJ (September 1995). "Contribution of beta 3-adrenoceptor activation to ephedrine-induced ... of ephedrine-induced thermogenesis. In March 2016 a study funded by the European Commission began. The study is assessing the ...
1994 in association football
Superstar Diego Maradona was suspended from Cup competition for doping on Ephedrine. August 21 - Ajax Amsterdam claims the ...