• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.510-515
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• 2011

Isoquinoline compounds including berberine enhance L-DOPA-induced cytotoxicity in PC12 cells. In this study, the effects of berberine on L-DOPA therapy in unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-induced rat models of parkinsonism were investigated. Rats were prepared for the models of Parkinson's disease by 6-OHDA-lesioning for 14 days and then treated with L-DOPA (10 mg/kg) with or without berberine (5 and 30 mg/kg, i.p.) for 21 days. Treatment with berberine (5 and 30 mg/kg, i.p.) showed a dopaminergic cell loss in substantia nigra of 6-OHDA-lesioned rats treated with L-DOPA: 30 mg/kg berberine was more intensive neurotoxic. The levels of dopamine were also decreased by berberine (5 and 30 mg/ kg) in striatum-substantia nigra of 6-OHDA-lesioned rats treated with L-DOPA. These results suggest that berberine aggravates cell death of dopaminergic neurons in L-DOPA-treated 6-OHDA-lesioned rat models of Parkinson's disease. Therefore, the long-term L-DOPA therapeutic patients with isoquinoline compounds including berberine may need to be checked for the adverse symptoms.

• Korean Journal of Weed Science
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.330-339
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• 2011

This study was conducted to determine the herbicidal activity of herbicidal substances and identify them in bulbs of Lycoris flavescens. Methanol extract was purified by a series of chromatographic techniques including silica gel column chromatography, preparative TLC, and HPLC. The final HPLC gave two active fractions and two herbicidal substances were obtained. By GC/MS analysis, one was identified as galanthine (galanthan-1-ol) and the other was identified as montanine ($O^2$-methyl pancracine), an isoquinoline alkaloid. Montanine showed nearly 100% of growth inhibition on the shoot and root of barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crusgalli) seedlings at $20{\mu}g\;mL^{-1}$ as compared with the control. Meanwhile, methanol extract of L. flavescens bulbs showed only about 3.1% and 8.3% of growth inhibition on the shoot and root of rice cultivar, Hwayeongbyeo seedlings at $1,000{\mu}g\;mL^{-1}$ as compared with the control, respectively.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.258-260
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• 1996

Palmatine, an protoberberine isoquinoline alkaloid, has been found to inhibit dopamine biosynthesis by reducing tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity in PC12 cells (Lee and Kim, 1996). We have therefore investigated the effects of palmatine on bovine adrenal TH. Palmatine showed a mild inhibition on bovine adrenal TH (36.4% inhibition at concentration of $200\muM$). Bovine adrenal TH was inhibited competitively by palmatine with a substrate L-tyrosine. The Ki value was found to be 0.67 mM. This result suggests that the inhibition of TH activity by palmatine may be partially involved in the reduction of dopamine biosynthesis in PC12 cells.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.510-512
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• 1997

The effects of noscapine a phthalide isoquinoline alkaloid, on dopamine biosynthesis and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity in PC12 cells were investigated. Noscapine showed 74.6% inhibition on dopamine content in PC12 cells at a concentration of $20{\mu}M.$ $IC_{50}$ of noscapine was $6.8{\mu}M.$ TH activity was inhibited by the treatment of noscapine in PC12 cells (20.9% inhibition at 20 .mu.M). Therefore, the inhibition of TH activity by noscapine might be involved in at least one component of the reduction of dopamine biosynthesis in PC12 cells.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.133-136
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• 1984

Higenamine (I), cardiotonic principle of Aconite root, was synthesized from 4-methoxy-phenylacetic acid (II) and .betha.-(3, 4-dimethoxyphenyl)-ethylamine (IV). Condensation of IV with 4-mehoxyphenylacetyl chloride (III) was followed by cyclodehydration yielding 1-(4'-methoxybenzyl)-6, 7- dimethoxy-3, 4-dihydroisoquinoline (VI). Reduction of VI to 1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (VII) and subsequent demethylation provided desired product higenamine, 1-(4'-hydroxybenzyl)-6, 7- dihydroxy-1, 2, 3, 4, -tetrahydroisoquinoline.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.131-134
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• 1996

3,4-Dimethoxyphenethyl amine(1) and 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde were converted to compounds(4) through sucessive condensation and reduction reaction. Compound(4) was treated with methylthioacetyl chloride to give compound(5) then m-chloroperbenzoic acid(m-CPBA) treatment of compound(5) produced S-oxide(6). To obtain isoquinoline derivative(7),(8), compound(6) were treated with p-TsOH. Xylopinine(9) and it's derivatives(10) were produced by Bischler-Napieralski reaction.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.350-353
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• 2001

Porcine pneumonia is caused by Pasturella multiocida and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. To identify a potent drug for antipneumonia therapy, several herbal compounds showing antibacterial effects were screened, and it was found that a methanol extract of Coptidis rhizoma root stem exhibited activity against both pneumonia-causing bacteria. Using an activity-guided fragmentation procedure, an isoquinoline alkaloid was isolated which would be responsible for the antibacterial activities against P. multocida and A. pleuropneumoniae.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.79-83
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• 1999

The effects of coralyne, a protoberberine isoquinoline compound, on dopamine biosynthesis in PC12 cells were investigated. Coralyne decreased the dopamine content dose-dependently $(46.3%\;inhibition\;at\;20\;{\mu}M\;for\;24 hr).$ Dopamine content was lowered at 6 hr and reached minimal level at 24 hr after exposure to coralyne at $20\;{\mu}M.$ The decreased dopamine level was maintained up to 48 hr and recovered to the control level at about 72 hr. Tyrosine hydroxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the catecholamine biosynthesis, was also inhibited at $20\;{\mu}M\;of\;coralyne$ by 16.1% relative to control. These results suggest that the inhibition of tyrosine hydroxylase by coralyne with a single treatment might be partially contributed to the decrease in dopamine content in PC12 cells.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.54-58
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• 1999

A method using coloric and spectrophotometric detection have been developed for the identification of the tertiary or quaternary alkaloids contained in Corydalis tuber and its preparations. The principle is based on the formation or decomposition of complex compounds. The complex compound of the tertiary and quaternary alkaloids have been formed by adding tetrathiocyanatocobaltate [II] ion to the test soln. Diverse crude drugs were screened using this method and the results indicated that isoquinoline, aconitine-type alkaloids in crude drugs can be readily detected. The method is simple, convenient, reproducible and applicable to the verification of the crude drug Corydalis tuber and its preparations.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.479-482
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• 2002

Benzylideneacetophenones are known as chalcones[1]. The chalcone has been known to be a photo-isomerizable and photo-dimerizable chromophore. The chalcone derivatives were prepared by base-catalyzed condensation of aldehydes and acetophenones, which were substituted with various alkyl chains. The synthesized chalcone was introduced into the t-BOC protected diamine through William synthesis reaction. Photocrosslinkable polyimide was prepared via one-step imidization reaction of DOCDA (5-(2,5-dioxotetrahydro furyl}-3-methyl-3-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboxylic anhydride) and the chalcone introduced diamine using isoquinoline (5 wt%) in m-cresol. The polyimide solutions were spin-coated onto the quartz, silicone wafer and glass substrates and the obtained thin films were irradiated obliquely with linearly polarized UV light.