toxins Article Determination of Cytisine and N-Methylcytisine from Selected Plant Extracts by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Comparison of Their Cytotoxic Activity Anna Petruczynik 1,* , Karol Wróblewski 2,3,*, Justyna Misiurek 1 , Tomasz Plech 4 , Karolina Szalast 4 , Krzysztof Wojtanowski 5, Tomasz Mroczek 5, Gra˙zynaSzymczak 6, Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos 1 and Piotr Tutka 2,3,7 1 Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin, Chod´zki4a, 20-093 Lublin, Poland;
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[email protected] (K.W.) Received: 24 July 2020; Accepted: 27 August 2020; Published: 29 August 2020 Abstract: Quinolizidine alkaloids exhibit various forms of biological activity. A lot of them were found in the Leguminosae family, including Laburnum and Genista.