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Holiday Plants with Toxic Misconceptions [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012 Several plants are used for their decorative effect during winter holidays. This review explores the toxic reputation and proposed management for exposures to several of those, namely poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), English holly (Ilex aquifolium ...
Zabrina N. Evens, Samuel J. Stellpflug
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Common Toxic Plants for Florida Horse Owners
EDIS, 2023 This publication is intended to provide horse owners with critical information about common toxic plants encountered in Florida. Written by Alyssa Schortinghouse and Brent Sellers, and published by the UF/IFAS Veterinary Medicine—Large Animal Clinical ...
Alyssa Schortinghouse, Brent Sellers
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Accidental colchicine poisoning with fatal outcome after ingestion of meadow saffron (Colchicum autumnale L.) - Report of autopsy case [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2020 Introduction. Meadow saffron (Colchicum autumnale L.) is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the Lily family (Liliacea). It is similar to the edible wild garlic (Allium ursinum L.).
Danilović Miloš +4 more
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Tungsten Toxicity in Plants [PDF]
Plants, 2012 Tungsten (W) is a rare heavy metal, widely used in a range of industrial, military and household applications due to its unique physical properties. These activities inevitably have accounted for local W accumulation at high concentrations, raising concerns about its effects for living organisms.
Eleftherios P. Eleftheriou +2 more
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International Journal of Applied and Experimental Biology, 2022 Rhazya stricta is an important medicinal plant species distributed all over the Warcha salt mine in Pakistan. Analysis of proximate composition and metals is a commendable job to assess the suitability of the exploitation of medicinal plants on a large ...
Zafar Iqbal Khan +9 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) such as cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), and arsenic (As), polluting the environment, pose a significant risk and cause a wide array of adverse changes in plant physiology.
Mohammed Alsafran +7 more
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Toxicosis by Plant Alkaloids in Humans and Animals in Colombia
Toxins, 2015 Due to its tropical location, chains of mountains, inter-Andean valleys, Amazon basin area, eastern plains and shores on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Colombia has many ecosystems and the second largest plant biodiversity in the world. Many plant
Gonzalo J. Diaz
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Phytochemistry, 2015 Plants have evolved to synthesize a variety of noxious compounds to cope with unfavorable circumstances, among which a large group of toxic proteins that play a critical role in plant defense against predators and microbes. Up to now, a wide range of harmful proteins have been discovered in different plants, including lectins, ribosome-inactivating ...
Dang, Liuyi, Van Damme, Els J.M.
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Studying the Uptake of Toxic Metals by Plants using New Mathematical Modeling
Tikrit Journal of Pure Science, 2023 Two plants species were used to study the uptake of heavy metals by plants; these were Lolium perenne and Cock's Foot. The species were grown in Hoagland's solution with double concentration of phosphate for one week; the roots species were cut and ...
Hussein Hassan Kharnoob +1 more
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Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2022 Ingestion of S. planicaulis (Sin. S. carpinifolia) causes lysosomal storage disease in sheep. The main toxic compound of this plant, swainsonine, inhibits the enzymatic activity of α-mannosidase I and II, resulting in lysosomal storage of glycoproteins ...
A.M. Santos +7 more
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