An alkaloid found in the seeds of STRYCHNOS NUX-VOMICA. It is a competitive antagonist at glycine receptors and thus a convulsant. It has been used as an analeptic, in the treatment of nonketotic hyperglycinemia and sleep apnea, and as a rat poison.
Strychnine has been studied across 18 research domains including 💊 Pain, 🧘 Stress & Anxiety, 🫘 Kidney, 🧠 Focus & Attention, 🌤️ Mood & Depression. The primary research focus is 💊 Pain with 6% of studies addressing this area.
The following compounds share molecular targets with Strychnine, based on binding affinity data from BindingDB and ChEMBL. Sorted by shared target overlap.
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