Yeah, I remember the article regarding alkaloidal replication of staggers disease - and wonder if I can find the reference somewhere among my files. Most likely I got it off the Nexus anyhow, so it's around here somewhere.
The gramine neuroprotectant one comes up on a search straight away:
Gramine promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury via ameliorating microglia activation - PMC
In recent years, a large number of studies have reported that neuroinflammation aggravates the occurrence of secondary injury after spinal cord injury. Gramine (GM), a natural indole alkaloid, possesses various pharmacological properties; however, ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
