Talk:Harmala alkaloid

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merged in material from Telepathine--Heah 18:00, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why should all the individual chemicals redirect here?

Noticed that Harmine, Harmaline, Tetrahydroharmine, Harmalol and Tetrahydroharmol are all just redirects to this article. I don't think this is a good idea personally, as these are all different chemicals and could easily have their own articles (including links here). I'm going to work on creating articles on these topics, so if anyone wants to help out, great.--Eloil 00:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Harmine is a pretty good-sized article now, getting out of the stub range.--Eloil 06:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'some' harmala alkaloids?

"Some harmala alkaloids, particularly harmine and harmaline, are found in the seeds of the Middle Eastern plant Harmal (Peganum harmala..."

Aren't all harmala alkaloids found in Peganum harmala by definition? Unless there are some found in the plant but not the seeds (which ones?)--Eloil 02:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Why not combine this with beta carboline?

Also, interaction between tyramine and harmine is not significant enough to cause problems; the author of this must be assuming that since pharmaceutical MAOI's interact with tyramine, that all MAOI's must as well. 68.81.5.211 02:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)anon

[edit] Reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A

Both Harmal and Harmaline articles states that the MAO-inhibiting effects restricts only to MAO-A so "cheese syndrome" isn't such a big concern. It's a bit confusing when this article states that "cheese syndrome" is associated with monoamine oxidase A inhibitors, but not monoamine oxidase B inhibitors. I think that sentence should be rewritten to inlcude the RIMA information. Ahabvihrea (talk) 10:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)