ImpurityOuabain OctahydrateCat. No. P-O045-002CAS 11018-89-6Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards
Ouabain
A cardiac glycoside, also called g-strophanthin, found in the African plants Strophanthus gratus and Acokanthera schimperi and isolated in 1882 by Léon-Albert Arnaud: it blocks the sodium-potassium pump and has been given intravenously for heart failure, especially in France and Germany. This family brings together other impurities.
Did you know?In 1991 a ouabain-like substance was found in human plasma: it has been proposed that our body makes its own version, perhaps in the adrenal glands, to help regulate blood pressure.
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EDQM standards 1
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
Reference substanceOuabain CRSEDQM code O0200000Family OuabainNeed a molecule you cannot find?
Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.