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Nature 452, 934 (24 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452934d; Published online 23 April 2008

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Truth about a plant with many names

Marko Kreft1 & Robert Zorec1

  1. Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology-Molecular Cell Physiology, Institute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zalos breveka 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Celica Biomedical Center, Tehnolos breveki Park 24, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

In the portrayal in Books & Arts of the University History Museum in Pavia, northern Italy (Nature 451, 526, 2008), the naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli — one of Pavia's many famous professors — is linked with the drug scopolamine. But although the two are connected, the compound was in fact named after the plant from which it is derived, Scopolia carniolica.

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