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Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2022 Questions on poisoning by plants are a common reason for inquiries to poison information centers (PIC). Over the years 2011-2020, plant poisoning was the subject of 15% of all inquiries to the joint poison information center in Erfurt, Germany (Gemeinsames Giftinformationszentrum Erfurt, GGIZ) that concerned poisoning in children (2.3% in adults).
Sebastian, Wendt +4 more
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Animals and Poisonous Plants [PDF]
Nature, 1898 WHEN visiting lately the herbaceous department in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, I noticed that nearly all the berries had disappeared from the deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna, the calyx being left untouched. The foreman of the herbaceous department told me that he believed they had been eaten by blackbirds, which are very active in the
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, 2016 Many hundreds of species of poisonous plants grow in the United States. Some of the most beautiful trees, shrubs, vegetables, and vines are poisonous under certain conditions. They provide shade, colorful flowers, or food, but parts of the plant (sap, leaves, seed, flowers, stems) may also contain toxic compounds. Using this publication, you will learn
Alsop, Judith A, Karlik, John F
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Hepatotoxic Plants that Poison Livestock
Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 2020 In the western United States, poisonous plants most often affect grazing livestock, and the related livestock losses are estimated to cost the grazing livestock industry more than $200 million annually. Many of these toxic plants contain neurotoxins that damage or alter the function of neurologic cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems. The
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Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1915 Although applied entomology has made enormous progress during recent years both in its scope and importance, we cannot deny that it has hitherto moved only in certain restricted paths and is therefore in danger of becoming one-sided, for the subject is taken up at present almost exclusively with a study of lifehistories, with parasites and the ...
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Zoos' Print Journal, 1999 Plants containing glucosides, acids or alkaloids are used as medicines. These when taken in excess often have adverse effect. The latex, white or coloured sap found in families of Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Sapotaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Papaveraceae, if used in excess always act as poison.
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Poisonous plants: An ongoing problem
Anales de Pediatría (English Edition), 2015 A medical visit for plant ingestion is rare in the pediatric emergency services but may involve a high toxicity. The botanical toxicology training of health staff is often very limited, and it can be difficult to make a diagnosis or decide on the appropriate treatment.To study the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of poisoning due to plant ...
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Plant Toxins: Poison or Therapeutic?
CHIMIA, 2020 Many plants that are classed as poisonous also have therapeutic uses, and this is illustrated using members of the Drimia and Digitalis genera which are sources of cardiac glycosides.
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The Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research, 2009 South Africa is blessed with one of the richest floras in the world, which--not surprisingly--includes many poisonous plants. Theiler in the founding years believed that plants could be involved in the aetiologies of many of the then unexplained conditions of stock, such as gousiekte and geeldikkop.
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