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MEDLINE. using the phrase "pancratium tortuosum" Selected 2 of 3 candidate topics. 2 references were found containing "pancratium tortuosum" as entered. 2 references were found containing the concept "pancratium tortuosum". Copyrights: CAPLUS: Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society. All Rights Reserved. (The UK patent material in this product/service is UK Crown copyright and is made available with permission. Crown Copyright. The French (FR) patent material in this product/service is made available from Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle (INPI).) MEDLINE: Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine REGISTRY: Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society. All Rights Reserved. (Some records contain information from GenBank(R). See also: Benson D.A., Karsch-Mizrachi I., Lipman D.J., Ostell J., Rapp B.A., Wheeler D.L. Genbank. Nucl. Acids Res. 28(1):15-18 (2000). Property values tagged with IC are from the ZIC/VINITI data file provided by InfoChem.) CAS Registry is a service mark of the American Chemical Society. CASREACT: Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society. All Rights Reserved. CASREACT contains reactions from CAS and from: ZIC/VINITI database (1974-1999) provided by InfoChem; INPI data prior to 1986; Biotransformations database compiled under the direction of Professor Dr. Klaus Kieslich; organic reactions, portions copyright 1996-2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Organic Reactions Inc., and Organic Syntheses Inc. Reproduced under license. All Rights Reserved. CHEMLIST, CHEMCATS: Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society. All Rights Reserved. Bibliographic Information Alkaloidal constituents of Pancratium tortuosum. Toaima, Soad M. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandria Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2007), 21(1), 63-68. Publisher: University of Alexandria, Faculty of Pharmacy, CODEN: AJPSES ISSN: 1110-1792. Journal written in English. CAN 147:443835 AN 2007:645768 CAPLUS (Copyright (C) 2011 ACS on SciFinder (R)) Abstract The ethanolic ext. of the bulbs of Pancratium tortuosum Herb, growing in Egypt yielded five alkaloids. Three alkaloids belonged to pyrrolo{de}phenanthridine nucleus, viz (-)ungiminorine (I), (-)ungiminorine N-oxide (II) and (-)lycorine (V). The other two alkaloids, (+)maritidine (III) and (+)11-hydroxyvittatine (IV) had (+)crinane skeleton. The structures of isolated alkaloids were identified on the basis of phys., chem. and spectral data.

Bibliographic Information Egyptian Pancratium species. Ahmed, Z. F.; Rize, A. M.; Hamouda, F. M. Drug Res. Center, Cairo, Lloydia (1964), 27(2), 115-34. CODEN: LLOYA2 ISSN: 0024-5461. Journal language unavailable. CAN 61:78027 AN 1964:478027 CAPLUS (Copyright (C) 2011 ACS on SciFinder (R)) Abstract The carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and alkaloids from different parts of P. arabicum, P. maritimum, P. sickenbergeri, and P. tortuosum were detd. Glucose, fructose, sucrose, melibiose, raffinose, stachyose, and probably manninotriose and verbascose were found; the mucilage (highest in bulbs) was -D-glucan type. The oily fraction was richest in bulbs and foliage leaves; bulbs of P. sickenbergeri had the most, 1.22% lipids. Palmitic, stearic, arachidic, behenic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, and conjugated diene acids were detected. The unsaponifiable fraction contained ceryl alc., 1,21-heneicosanediol, and -sitosterol. Hydrolysis of the proteins and then paper chromatography indicated the presence of cystine, lysine, histidine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, glycine, threonine, tyrosine, proline, valine, alanine, phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine, methionine, and tryptophan. In detg. alkaloids, a solvent fractionation scheme and paper and column chromatography techniques were used. The following occurred in all 4 species: lycorine (I), tazettine, galanthamine, sickenbergine, hemanthidine, and an unidentified base. All species except P. tortuosum showed pancreatin and homolycorine; P. arabicum and P. maritimum contained lycorenine; demethylhomolycorine was found only in P. maritimum; and vittatine only in P. tortuosum. I was the chief alkaloid in all 4 species. Green leaves generally were richest in alkaloids, followed by stems, bulbs, and scale leaves. H2O, ash, total N, and various extractives are also given for each species. 50 references.