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- edited by B. L. Jacobs. Raven Press, New York (C) 1984
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- Medicinal Chemistry and Structure Activity Relationships of Hallucinogens
- David E. Nichols and Richard A. Glennon
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- Page 123-124
- The 5-hydroxy derrivative of DMT, bufotenine, or N,N-dimethyl-serotonin,
- is another naturally occuring tryptamine found to occur in South
- American Snuffs (also Bufo). Intravenours administration of of
- bufotenine was reported by Fabing and co-workers (59,60) to be
- hallucinogenic in man. THis finding is in conflict with a later
- report by Turner and Merlis (253). Apparantly, due to its low
- lipid solubility (65), bufotenine does not readily cross the
- blood-brain barrier (64,183). The initial observations made by
- Fabing et.al. (59,60) may be the result of peripheral toxic
- manifestations. Bufotenine has been found to be behviourally inactive,
- or only weakly active in most animals studies...
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