Description
A piperidine alkaloid with diverse biological activities; an inhibitor of AChE (IC50 = 54.5 µg/ml); scavenges ABTS radicals and chelates iron (IC50s = 102.65 and 104.32 µg/ml, respectively); toxic to adult A. gambiae at 0.04 mg/ml in a feeding assay; toxic to mice (LD50s = 340 and 3,000 mg/kg for oral and i.p. administration, respectively); has been used as a biomarker of ricin poisoning