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Company: GMU

Summary of Search strategy for :Ginkgo biloba “4-O-methylpyridoxine”

The method for locating the plant was the same as that used for the alkaloid. In the Locate Substances window the terms I typed was “ginkgo toxin” first and there was a variety of results that will be summarized below. Then I tried to search for “4-O-methylpyridoxine” but I got no hits and therefore focused on the first method since it gave me the most results. I tried ginkgo poison but the results were not clear since they gave me poisons but not the one I wanted. 

Locate Substances term: “ginkgo toxin”
After typing this terms I got around 62 results which probably included the duplicates as well which I later took out but I did not get the amount of hits left over. In terms of journal articles I got 62 articles for the search using “ginkgo toxin”. 
For the search concerning “biochemical studies” and “combinatorial study” I got 44 results and none of them were useful since names similar to my toxin appeared but not the toxin itself. 
In terms of “adverse side effects” and “analytical study” 34 results appeared. Only the one dealing with “High-performance Liquid Chromatography in the serum of patients for the 4-O-methylpyridoxine” seemed useful. 
When the search was focused on looking for articles about Mass or NMR spectroscopy no results were found for this specific compound although there was one hit that gave me information about High-performance Liquid Chromatography in the serum of patients for the 4-O-methylpyridoxine. This article however was found by using the limitations of looking for “adverse effect, including toxicity” and the “analytical study” selections. After having no results on the other selections I focused on the selections of “Miscellaneous” and “Occurrence” which gave me around 7 results with just one being useful. The useful article gave me information about the Biosynthesis of 4-O-methylpyridoxine from primary precursors which I realized was the same as the article I found using ACS database before. 
Many of the other articles that were found under the classification mentioned did not have full text and one of them in particular gave me information about the spectra for my compound. The article written Fujisama and other authors on the Journal of analytical Toxicology seemed promising but it had no text. I then went to search this article using the database ACS and I got no results. Since the article was from 2002 I selected the date range from 1996 to 2005 and I got no results.