Biomagnification of cycad neurotoxins in flying foxes: Implications for ALS-PDC in Guam

Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 387-389

  Banack, Sandra Anne ^a,b   Cox, Paul Alan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; NEUROTOXIN; PLANT TOXIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYCAS; ENDOSCOPY; FLOUR; FOX; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GUAM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SKIN CULTURE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041624017     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000078320.18564.9F     Document Type: Article

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