Detection and identification of amanitins in the wood-rotting fungi Galerina fasciculata and Galerina helvoliceps

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4207-4210

  Muraoka, Shinjiro ^a,b   Fukamachi, Nobuko ^c   Mizumoto, Kiyohisa ^c   Shinozawa, Takao ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Research and Development Division   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANITIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MYCOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CYTOTOXICITY; MOUSE; MUSHROOM POISONING; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; GALERINA; GALERINA FASCICULATA; GALERINA HELVOLICEPS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032874460     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4207-4210.1999     Document Type: Article

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