Complex diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders and cancer constitute a growing
public health problem due to the rising incidence and lack in effective therapies. Since …

Heroin is an opioid agonist commonly abused for its rewarding effects. Since its synthesis at
the end of the nineteenth century, its popularity as a recreational drug has ebbed and …

Covering: up to June 2024 Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) represent a diverse class of
plant specialized metabolites derived from L-tyrosine, exhibiting significant pharmacological …

The lakeshore site of La Marmotta is one of the most important Early Neolithic sites of
Mediterranean Europe. The site is famous for the exceptional preservation of organic …

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is one of the world's oldest medicinal plants and a
versatile model system to study secondary metabolism. However, our knowledge of its …

Opium poppy is a crop of great commercial value as a source of several opium alkaloids for
the pharmaceutical industries including morphine, codeine, thebaine, noscapine, and …

Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean.
Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca …

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. subsp. somniferum) was likely domesticated in the
Western Mediterranean, where its putative wild ancestor is indigenous, and then spread to …

Papaveraceae, commonly known as the poppy family, contains many species with
horticultural and/or pharmaceutical importance and has been the subject of various …

The Ranunculales are a hyperdiverse lineage in many aspects of their phenotype, including
growth habit, floral and leaf morphology, reproductive mode, and specialized metabolism …