Charles Joseph Tanret

Charles Joseph Tanret (9 August 1847, in Joinville, France 10 July 1917, in Paris) was a French pharmacist and chemist.

He notably studied the chemistry of sugars. For instance, he identified quebrachitol in 1887 from the bark of Aspidosperma quebracho.[1]

His son Georges was also a pharmacist, specialist of plant chemistry. Georges Tanret identified an alkaloid (galegine) from Galega officinalis that was evaluated in clinical trials in patients with diabetes in the 1920s and 1930s.[2][3]

References

  1. An investigation of quebrachitol as a sweetening agent for diabetics. Robert Alexander McCance and Robert Daniel Lawrence, Biochem J. 1933; 27(4): 986–989
  2. Simonnet H, Tanret G. Sur les propietes hypoglycemiantes du sulfate de galegine. Bull Soc Chim Biol Paris 1927
  3. Bailey CJ, Campbell IW, Chan JCN, Davidson JA, Howlett HCS, Ritz P (eds). 2007. Metformin: the Gold Standard. A Scientific handbook; Chichester: Wiley. Chapter 1: Galegine and antidiabetic plants

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