Limonoid

Limonoids are phytochemicals of the triterpenoid class which are abundant in sweet or sour-scented citrus fruit and other plants of the families Cucurbitaceae, Rutaceae, and Meliaceae. Certain limonoids are antifeedants such as azadirachtin from the neem tree.

Sydnone imine

Sydnone imine is a mesoionic heterocyclic aromatic chemical compound. Sydnone imine is the imine of sydnone where the keto functional group of sydnone (=O) has been replaced with an imine (=NH) group

Exopheromone

Exopheromone is a term coined by Terence McKenna, proposed in his book Food of the Gods for the controversial idea of chemical signals between members of different classes of living things, as opposed to among conspecifics. He suggested that certain

Blattellaquinone

Blattellaquinone, also known as gentisyl quinone isovalerate, is a sex pheromone of the German cockroach. Blattellaquinone is secreted by females to attract male cockroaches

Basic aromatic ring

Basic aromatic rings are aromatic rings in which the lone pair of electrons of a ring-nitrogen atom is not part of the aromatic system and extends in the plane of the ring. This lone pair is responsible for the basicity of these nitrogenous bases, similar

Addiction Research Center Inventory

The Addiction Research Center Inventory, abbreviated ARCI, is a standardized questionnaire for assessing subjective effects of psychoactive drugs that was developed in the early 1960s at the National Institute of Mental Health Addiction Research Center

Epiphytic fungus

An epiphytic fungus is a fungus that grows upon, or attached to, a living plant. The term epiphytic derives from the Greek epi- and phyton

Victor A. Reko

Viktor Aloisius Reko, was an Austrian teacher and scientific author who moved to Mexico in 1921. He is best known for his popular book Magische Gifte: Rausch- und Betäubungsmittel der Neuen Welt, first published in 1936. This book recorded a number of

Cheese crystals

Cheese crystals are whitish, semi-solid to solid, slightly crunchy to gritty crystalline spots, granules, and aggregates that can form on the surface and inside of cheese. Cheese crystals are characteristic of many long-aged hard cheeses

Ascaricide

Ascaricides are drugs to treat ascariasis that is caused by infections with parasitic nematodes (roundworms) of the genus Ascaris. The large roundworm of pigs typically infects pigs while Ascaris lumbricoides affects human populations, typically in sub

Rachama

Rachama is a mountain peak in the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region of China