Pyrrolizidine alkaloid level in Senecio bicolor (Wilid.) Tod, ssp. cineraria (DC.) from middle Europe

Pharmazie. 2006 Jun;61(6):559-61.

Abstract

From Senecio bicolor, ssp. cineraria, cultivated in middle Europe, seven pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) were isolated and their structures elucidated by spectroscopical methods. Besides the already known senecionine, integerrimine, seneciphylline, jacobine, jacoline and jaconine the jacobine-acetate was found. On account of structure toxicity relationship all PA show toxic side-effects.

MeSH terms

  • Europe
  • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
  • Homeopathy
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids / analysis*
  • Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids / toxicity
  • Senecio / chemistry*
  • Structure-Activity Relationship

Substances

  • Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids