Concept information
Preferred term
Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Alkaloid, Pyrrolizidine
- Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid
Scope note
- A group of ALKALOIDS, characterized by a nitrogen-containing necine, occurring mainly in plants of the BORAGINACEAE; COMPOSITAE; and LEGUMINOSAE plant families. They can be activated in the liver by hydrolysis of the ester and desaturation of the necine base to reactive electrophilic pyrrolic CYTOTOXINS.
History note
- 73(71)
In other languages
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Finnish
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pyrrolitsidiinialkaloidi
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011763
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