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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.
Ioannis-Dimosthenis S. Adamakis, Emmanuel Panteris, Eleftherios P. Eleftheriou   +2 more
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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, Hasan Ahmed Hasan   +1 more
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Allamanda cathartica leaves do not contain cardioactive glycosides [PDF]

Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia
Allamanda cathartica, a plant used in traditional medicine for different purposes, has been considered a cardiotoxic plant. However, the alleged cardiac glycoside was not further studied. Thus, the present study aimed to determine whether the leaves of A.
B.P. Santos, G.P.P. Ataíde, C.J.C. Saraiva, M.S. Teixeira, B. Soto-Blanco   +4 more
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Lysosomal storage disease induced by Sida planicaulis (Sin. Sida carpinifolia) (Malvaceae) in sheep in the state of Rio de Janeiro

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, A.G. Armién, I.C. Miranda, J.F. Rocha, M.S. d’Avila, S.Z.R. Costa, T.N. França, P.V. Peixoto   +7 more
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Three Cases of Burn Injury Due to Topical Ranunculus Use

Medicine Science, 2016
Ranunculus (buttercup or mayflower) is an important plant species causing chemical irritation. It is one of the traditional treatment methods usually used for rheumatic disorders in Central Anatolia particularly in spring and summer months.
Abuzer Coskun, Tugba Demir, Sedat Ozbay, Afsin Emre Kayipmaz, Osman Mahir Okur, Ilham Ozkan, Sevki Hakan Eren, Cemil Kavalci   +7 more
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Profile of plants for poisoning cases in human Alagoas state / Perfil dos casos de intoxicação por plantas em humanos no estado de Alagoas

Diversitas Journal, 2019
Toxic plants are so named because they have bioavailable substances capable of causing metabolic abnormalities such changes are recognized as symptoms of intoxication.
Eládia Maria Santos, Katiane Melo Gomes, Lucas Pedrosa Souto Maior, Lyvia Quintela Cavalcante Trajano, Saskya Araújo Fonseca, Thiago José Matos-Rocha, Aldenir Feitosa dos Santos   +6 more
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Datura poisoning in a family: Case series and literature review

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Datura spp. is a potentially poisonous plant that is widely spread and is simply accessible, which can yield poisoning with a central and peripheral anticholinergic effect.
Niloofar Khoshnam‐Rad, Marziyeh Heydari, Keyhan Mohammadi, Mojgan Mashayekhi, Zahra Sahraei, Kheirollah Gholami   +5 more
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Development and validation of Triticum phytobiological method as an alternative procedure for investigating in vivo acute toxicity on mice [PDF]

, 2017
The goal of this study was to validate an alternative method for determining in vivo acute toxicity using vegetal material instead of laboratory animals, starting from the phytobiological method known also as the Triticum technique.
Anghel, Adriana, Chiriță, Cornel, Cristea, Aurelia N., Dinu, Mihaela, Olaru, Octavian, Ştefănescu, Emil   +5 more
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Toxic plants act as indiscriminate protectors of insects

Communications Biology, 2021
Aposematism is a prey strategy to communicate toxicity or danger to predators, often through bright colours, and over time is learned by predators. McLellan et al. report in Current Biology that association between an aposematic insect and its host plant
Luke R. Grinham
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Advances in “Omics” Approaches for Improving Toxic Metals/Metalloids Tolerance in Plants

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Food safety has emerged as a high-urgency matter for sustainable agricultural production. Toxic metal contamination of soil and water significantly affects agricultural productivity, which is further aggravated by extreme anthropogenic activities and ...
Ali Raza, Javaria Tabassum, Zainab Zahid, Sidra Charagh, Shanza Bashir, Rutwik Barmukh, Rao Sohail Ahmad Khan, Fernando Barbosa, Chong Zhang, Hua Chen, Weijian Zhuang, Rajeev K. Varshney, Rajeev K. Varshney, Rajeev K. Varshney   +13 more
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