An extract of a suspension culture of Tabernaemontana pandacaqui Poir. was
fractionated by centrifugal partition chromatography. Aliquots were tested
in an adenosine A(1) receptor binding assay. This led to the isolation and
identification of linoleic acid, which proved to be a noncompetitive inhibi
tor This "false positive" effect also extended to some other binding assays
.