| He is currently ensconced in a bungalow in the town of Calabar in Cross River State. |
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| His work on the Calabar bean provides didactic and practical routes for the synthesis of medicinally important compounds. |
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| In nature, physostigmine is found in Calabar beans, poisonous beans that grow in West Africa. |
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| Although outlawed throughout Africa, the Calabar bean ordeal is astonishingly enough, still practiced in some tribal rituals. |
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| In cases of poisoning by Calabar beans, the stomach should be evacuated, and atropine injected until the pulse quickens or the symptoms pass off. |
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| But since physostigmine could be isolated only from the Calabar bean, the drug was not readily available. |
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| The Nigerien youngsters were handed a 4-1 defeat in Niamey with a further 6-0 defeat at the weekend in Calabar. |
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| His synthesis of physostigmine, found in the Calabar bean, or Physostigmavenenosum, yielded a treatment for glaucoma. |
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| Yes, the Calabar bean was tremendously venomous but it really did spare the innocent and killed the guilty for simple pharmacological reasons. |
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| What is the difference between death due to Strychnine poison and death due to poisoning by the Calabar bean? |
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| Physostigmine, C 15 H 22 N 3 O 2, is the major alkaloid found in the seeds of Calabar beans. |
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| His first project was the total synthesis of physostigmine, an indole alkaloid extracted from the Calabar bean, used in the treatment of glaucoma. |
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| Several African nations such as the Calabar and other southern parts of Nigeria had economies depended solely on the trade. |
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| The areas surrounding Calabar, Cross River State, also in this forest, are believed to contain the world's largest diversity of butterflies. |
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| It is known to have traded for African captives at New Calabar on the Guinea Coast. |
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| The impacted airports are those in Benin, Calabar, Enugu, Ibadan, Ilorin, Owerri, Jos, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Katsina, Minna, Sokoto, Zaria, Gombe and Bauchi. |
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