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Definition of Cytisine

1. a type of alkaloid [n -S] - See also: alkaloid

Medical Definition of Cytisine

1. A toxic selective nicotinic cholinergic alkaloid from the seed of Laburnum anagyroides and other Leguminosae. Used in pharmacological studies of nicotinic cholinergic receptors in the brain. Synonym: baptitoxine. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytisine

Literary usage of Cytisine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Laboratory manual for the detection of poisons and powerful drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"Distil the chloroform which usually deposits cytisine as a radiating crystalline mass. If purification is necessary, recrystallize the residue from absolute ..."

2. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"From the hydrochloride the free baie is readily obtained. cytisine ... cytisine is in the form of white radiating crystals, consisting, when deposited from ..."

3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Bilateral injections of either nicotine (200 micrograms) or cytisine (30 or 60 micrograms) into the nucleus accumbens elicited locomotor hyperactivity in ..."

4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"... the precipitate is decomposed by drying' it with oxide of lead ; and the cytisine is extracted from the dry residue by alcohol. ..."

5. Botanical Microtechnique: A Hand-book of Methods for the Preparation by A[lbrecht] Zimmermann (1893)
"cytisine occurs, according to ... sulphuric acid dissolves cytisine with a bright reddish-yellow color; if very small bits of solid potassium ..."

6. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"In aqueous solution, cytisine is strongly alkaline, and exhibits the ... cytisine is a strong base, displacing ammonia from its salts even in the cold. ..."

7. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"In aqueous solution, cytisine is strongly alkaline, and exhibits the ... cytisine is a strong base, displacing ammonia from its salts even in the cold. ..."

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