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Acute cardiotoxicity following 'poppy seed tea' consumption [PDF]

open access: yesAnaesthesia Reports, 2021
SummaryInsect damage to, and sub‐optimal harvesting practices of the Papaver somniferum poppy are associated with contamination of its seeds with opium alkaloids. Consumption of poppy seeds has been linked to opium‐like overdose symptoms, such as reduced consciousness and respiratory depression.
Y P A, Tan, P D G, Alexander, S, Knowles
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Picturing Seeds of Poppies [PDF]

open access: yesNuncius, 2022
Abstract The middle of the seventeenth century saw the emergence of a new kind of botanical observation: Microscopical observations of seeds. Previously, naturalists had made observations of seeds to complete their description of plants published in herbals, but for the first generation of Royal Society microscopists—Henry Power, Robert Hooke, and ...
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Cross-Sensitization between Poppy Seed and Buckwheat in a Food-Allergic Patient with Poppy Seed Anaphylaxis [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Archives of Allergy and Immunology, 2006
The opium poppy, <i>Papaver somniferum </i>L., is the source of both poppy seeds and opium. The commercially available seeds are widely used as ingredients for various kinds of food. IgE-mediated sensitization to poppy seeds is rare, but, if present, clinical symptoms are usually severe.
Oppel, T., Thomas, P., Wollenberg, A.
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MECHANICS OF POPPY SEEDS [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Food Properties, 2002
ABSTRACT Poppy seeds of four varieties (Lazur, Opal, Przemko, and Albin) were compressed between two rigid plates at constant deformation rate 0.0167 mm per second. The experiments were performed with the stored seeds, but blue varieties Lazur, Opal, and Przemko were tested also at the harvest and pre-harvest stages of maturity.
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Opiates in poppy seed: effect on urinalysis results after consumption of poppy seed cake-filling.

open access: yesClinical Chemistry, 1987
Abstract We report the analysis of poppy seed filling for morphine and codeine content. Concentrations in the range 17.4 to 18.6 micrograms/g (morphine) and 2.3 to 2.5 micrograms/g (codeine) were found in different lots of the filling, which is widely used in baking.
B C, Pettitt, S M, Dyszel, L V, Hood
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poppy seed defense: scientifically sound?

open access: yesMcGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal, 2008
Since the infamous Seinfeld episode, there has been much doubt cast upon the relationship between the effects of poppy seed ingestion and testing positive for opiates. In the episode, Elaine fails a drug test after eating a poppy seed bagel for breakfast. A number of quasi-scientific sources, such as the TV show MythBusters,
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193 Poppy seed defence [PDF]

open access: yesAbstracts, 2021
Maja Vinkovic   +4 more
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[Hypersensitivity to poppy seeds].

open access: yesWiadomosci lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960), 2006
Hypersensitivity to poppy seeds is rare and it may develop due to immune (allergy) and non-immune reactions of fulminant course. Two cases of hypersensitivity to poppy seeds are presented: in a 21-year-old woman and 32-year-old man in whom life-threatening symptoms and signs of anaphylaxis (SSA) developed after consumption of poppy seeds in various ...
Andrzej, Bant   +3 more
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