Amaryllidaceae occupies a prominent position among the most important alkaloid-rich plant families in globe. Plants of this family show an exceptional ability to produce myriad structurally diverse alkaloids with noteworthy pharmacological and therapeutic potential. Of these alkaloids, narciprimine is rare weakly basic phenanthridone alkaloid that was identified from some species belonging gene...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a slowly progressive neuropsychiatric illness, principally characterized by memory deficits, has become the fourth leading cause of death in developed nations. Since the patients with AD suffer from marked reduction of cholinergic neuronal function resulting in a deficiency in acetylcholine (ACh) concentration in the brain, and these reductions are associated with impa...