Tenuifolin
{{short description|Bioactive terpenoids}}
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Tenuifolins are bio-active terpenoids. Tenuifolins inhibit beta-amyloid synthesis in vitro. Tenuifolins have nootropic activity in vivo via acetylcholinesterase inhibition and increased norepinephrine and dopamine production.
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- {{cite journal |last1=Yoo |first1=Ki-Yeol |last2=Park |first2=So-Young |year=2012 |title=Terpenoids as Potential Anti-Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics |journal=Molecules |volume=17 |issue=12 |pages=3524–38 |doi=10.3390/molecules17033524|pmid=22430119 |pmc=6268347 |citeseerx=10.1.1.375.1082 |doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Lv |first1=J. |last2=Jia |first2=H. |last3=Jiang |first3=Y. |last4=Ruan |first4=Y. |last5=Liu |first5=Z. |last6=Yue |first6=W. |last7=Beyreuther |first7=K. |last8=Tu |first8=P. |last9=Zhang |first9=D. |year=2009 |title=Tenuifolin, an extract derived from tenuigenin, inhibits amyloid-β secretionin vitro |journal=Acta Physiologica |volume=196 |issue=4 |pages=419–25|pmid=19208093 |doi=10.1111/j.1748-1716.2009.01961.x|s2cid=24062514 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Hong |last2=Han |first2=Ting |last3=Zhang |first3=Lei |last4=Yu |first4=Cheng-Hao |last5=Wan |first5=De-Guang |last6=Rahman |first6=Khalid |last7=Qin |first7=Lu-Ping |last8=Peng |first8=Cheng |year=2008 |title=Effects of tenuifolin extracted from radix polygalae on learning and memory: A behavioral and biochemical study on aged and amnesic mice |journal=Phytomedicine |volume=15 |issue=8 |pages=587–94 |pmid=18289838 |doi=10.1016/j.phymed.2007.12.004}}
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