Tenuifolin Explained

thumb|Tenuifolin A-ITenuifolins are bio-active terpenoids. Tenuifolins inhibit beta-amyloid synthesis in vitro. Tenuifolins have nootropic activity in vivo via acetylcholinesterase inhibition and increased norepinephrine and dopamine production.

Further reading

• Yoo . Ki-Yeol . Park . So-Young . 2012 . Terpenoids as Potential Anti-Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics . Molecules . 17 . 12 . 3524–38 . 10.3390/molecules17033524. 22430119 . 6268347 . 10.1.1.375.1082 . free .
• Lv . J. . Jia . H. . Jiang . Y. . Ruan . Y. . Liu . Z. . Yue . W. . Beyreuther . K. . Tu . P. . Zhang . D. . 2009 . Tenuifolin, an extract derived from tenuigenin, inhibits amyloid-β secretionin vitro . Acta Physiologica . 196 . 4 . 419–25. 19208093 . 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2009.01961.x. 24062514 .
• Zhang . Hong . Han . Ting . Zhang . Lei . Yu . Cheng-Hao . Wan . De-Guang . Rahman . Khalid . Qin . Lu-Ping . Peng . Cheng . 2008 . Effects of tenuifolin extracted from radix polygalae on learning and memory: A behavioral and biochemical study on aged and amnesic mice . Phytomedicine . 15 . 8 . 587–94 . 18289838 . 10.1016/j.phymed.2007.12.004.