Mesembrenone
Mesembrenone, sucrose and obtusalin, the extracts of Sceletium tortuosum show antimalarial activity with activity values ranging between 1.47 ug/ml and 7.32 ug/ml, well below the 10 ug/ml cut off value.
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24 months(2-8C).
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J Ethnopharmacol. 2011 Oct 11;137(3):1124-9.
Pharmacological actions of the South African medicinal and functional food plant Sceletium tortuosum and its principal alkaloids.[Pubmed:
21798331]
The South African plant Sceletium tortuosum has been known for centuries for a variety of traditional uses, and, more recently, as a possible source of anti-anxiety or anti-depressant effects. A standardised extract Zembrin(®) was used to test for pharmacological activities that might be relevant to the ethnopharmacological uses, and three of the main alkaloids were also tested.
METHODS AND RESULTS:
A standardised ethanolic extract was prepared from dried plant material, along with the purified alkaloids mesembrine, Mesembrenone and mesembrenol. These were tested on a panel of receptors, enzymes and other drug targets, and for cytotoxic effects on mammalian cells.
The extract was a potent blocker in 5-HT transporter binding assays (IC(50) 4.3 μg/ml) and had powerful inhibitory effects on phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) (IC(50) 8.5 μg/ml), but not other phosphodiesterases. There were no cytotoxic effects. Mesembrine was the most active alkaloid against the 5-HT transporter (K(i) 1.4 nM), while Mesembrenone was active against the 5-HT transporter and PDE4 (IC(50)'s<1 μM).
CONCLUSIONS:
The activity of the Sceletium tortuosum extract on the 5-HT transporter and PDE4 may explain the clinical effects of preparations made from this plant. The activities relate to the presence of alkaloids, particularly mesembrine and Mesembrenone.
Anal Bioanal Chem. 2015 Jan;407(3):761-78.
GC-MS, LC-MS(n), LC-high resolution-MS(n), and NMR studies on the metabolism and toxicological detection of mesembrine and mesembrenone, the main alkaloids of the legal high [Pubmed:
25240931]
METHODS AND RESULTS:
Mesembrine and Mesembrenone are the main alkaloids of Sceletium tortuosum, a plant species that was used for sedation and analgesia by the KhoiSan, previously known as Hottentots, a tribe in South Africa. After fermentation, the obtained preparation called "Kanna" or "Kougoed" was used by chewing, smoking, or sniffing.After a common user's low dose application of mesembrine, mainly the O- and N demethyl-dihydro, hydroxy, and bis-demethyl-dihydro metabolites, and in case of Mesembrenone only the N-demethyl and the N-demethyl-dihydro metabolite could be detected in rat urine using the authors' standard urine screening approaches (SUSA) by GC-MS or LC-MS(n).
CONCLUSIONS:
Thus, it should be possible to monitor a consumption of mesembrine and/or Mesembrenone assuming similar pharmacokinetics in humans.
