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AB Toxins: A Paradigm Switch from Deadly to Desirable
Toxins, 2010 To ensure their survival, a number of bacterial and plant species have evolved a common strategy to capture energy from other biological systems. Being imperfect pathogens, organisms synthesizing multi-subunit AB toxins are responsible for the mortality ...
Oludare Odumosu +3 more
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How Plant Toxins Cause Early Larval Mortality in Herbivorous Insects: An Explanation by Modeling the Net Energy Curve. [PDF]
Toxins (Basel)Plants store chemical defenses that act as toxins against herbivores, such as toxic isothiocyanates (ITCs) in Brassica plants, hydrolyzed from glucosinolate (GLS) precursors.
Chakraborty S, Schuster S.
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Beyond Proteins—Edible Insects as a Source of Dietary Fiber
Polysaccharides, 2023 The consumption of insects as an alternative protein source is acceptable as a sustainable alternative to mainstream protein sources. Apart from containing a high protein content, insects also have dietary fiber in the form of chitin, which helps to ...
Carolyne Kipkoech
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Ricin and Abrin as Possible Agents of Bioterror
Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2022 Plant toxins – ricin and abrin, obtained in a purified form from the beans of the castor bean and Abrus precatorius respectively, are considered by Western experts as potential damaging agents of a biological nature.
D. V. Pechenkin +5 more
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Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Toxins in 2020
, 2021 Peer review is the driving force of journal development, and reviewers are gatekeepers who ensure that Toxins maintains its standards for the high quality of its published papers [...
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Plant Poisons in the Garden: A Human Risk Assessment
Separations, 2022 A study of the plants, and their associated poisons, in the Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden was undertaken across a calendar year. By selecting 25 plants in the Poison Garden, we have been able to develop a single chromatographic method for the ...
Samantha L. Bowerbank +2 more
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A Berry and Acute Kidney Injury
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2022 Plant toxins have well been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of acute kidney injury (AKI). Certain plant toxins are endemic to a particular country and region.
B Balaji Kirushnan +2 more
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Toxin Degradation by Rumen Microorganisms: A Review
Toxins, 2020 Animal feeds may contain exogenous compounds that can induce toxicity when ruminants ingest them. These toxins are secondary metabolites originating from various sources including plants, bacteria, algae and fungi.
Zhi Hung Loh +4 more
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Toxins, 2021 Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a large group of botanical toxins of concern, as they are considered genotoxic carcinogens, with long-term dietary exposure presenting an elevated risk of liver cancer.
Andrew J. Pearson +3 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020 Stenodactylin, a highly toxic type 2 ribosome-inactivating protein purified from the caudex of Adenia stenodactyla Harms, is a potential anticancer drug candidate.
Daniele Mercatelli +9 more
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