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Atropine is a tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic medication used to treat certain types of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings as well as some types of slow heart rate, and to decrease saliva production during surgery. [6] It is typically given intravenously or by injection into a muscle. [6]
Alkaloids can be toxic too (e.g. atropine, tubocurarine). [12] Although alkaloids act on a diversity of metabolic systems in humans and other animals, they almost uniformly evoke a bitter taste . [ 13 ]
Tropane alkaloids are a class of bicyclic [3.2.1] alkaloids and secondary metabolites that contain a tropane ring in their chemical structure. [1] Tropane alkaloids occur naturally in many members of the plant family Solanaceae .
Hyoscyamine (also known as daturine or duboisine) is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid and plant toxin. It is a secondary metabolite found in certain plants of the family Solanaceae, including henbane, mandrake, angel's trumpets, jimsonweed, the sorcerers' tree, and Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade).
The most common plants containing anticholinergic alkaloids (including atropine, scopolamine, and hyoscyamine among others) are: Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade) Brugmansia species; Datura species; Garrya species; Hyoscyamus niger (henbane) Mandragora officinarum (mandrake)
Tropane is a nitrogenous bicyclic organic compound.It is mainly known for the other alkaloids derived from it, which include atropine and cocaine, among others. Tropane alkaloids occur in plants of the families Erythroxylaceae (including coca) and Solanaceae (including mandrake, henbane, deadly nightshade, datura, potato, tomato).
Traces of several alkaloids, specifically atropine, scopolamine, and ephedrine, were found in the hair, the study said. Researchers described these alkaloids as “highly psychoactive.”
Atropine is a type of secondary metabolite called a tropane alkaloid. Alkaloids contain nitrogens, frequently in a ring structure, and are derived from amino acids. Tropane is an organic compound containing nitrogen and it is from tropane that atropine is derived.