Research Area: Cardiovascular Disease , Inflammation , Neurological Disease Biological Activity: Rutaecarpine is an indolopyridoquinazolinone alkaloid isolated from Evodia rutaecarpa and related herbs, which has shown a variety of intriguing biological properties such as anti-thrombotic, anticancer, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, anti-obesity and thermoregulatory, vasorelaxing activity, as well as effects on the cardiovascular and endocrine systems. [1]
Evodia rutaecarpa is used in Chinese medicine against headache, abdominal pain, dysentery and cholera.
A major component of the Chinese drug Wou-chou-yu (the dried fruit of Evodia rutaecarpa).
Also isol. from the bark of Hortia arborea and Hortia badinii, and from the root wood of Zanthoxylum integrifoliolum (Rutaceae)
理化性质
溶解度
DMSO: soluble18 mg/mL (clear yellow solution)
H2O: insoluble
外观
white solid
Yellow powder
药理学性质
相关基因信息
human ... CYP1A1(1543), CYP1A2(1544), CYP1B1(1545)