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Ricerche preliminari sulla moschatina

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Moschatine, a new powerful hypotensive and intestine-stimulating agent, was found in extracts of posterior salivary glands ofEledone moschata andEledone Aldrovandi.

Extracts prepared from other tissues and organs ofEldone are quite ineffective.

The substance is also wanting in salivary extracts ofOctopus vulgaris, Octopus macropus andOctopus De Filippii as well as in extracts from the hypobranchial body ofMurex trunculus andMurex brandaris.

Moschatine was isolated as highly active picrate and, probably, as reineckate. It is not a choline derivative.

The moschatine content of the salivary extracts ofEledone varies, when expressed in picrate, between 500 and 1500γ per g fresh tissue.

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  1. Istituto di Farmacologia dell'Università di Bari, Italy

    V. Erspamer

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Le presenti indagini sono state sovvenzionate da un contributo straordinario del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

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Erspamer, V. Ricerche preliminari sulla moschatina. Experientia 5, 79–81 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02153737

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