Potato glycoalkaloids: True safety or false sense of security?

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 147-151

  Korpan, Yaroslav I ^a   Nazarenko, Elena A ^a   Skryshevskaya, Irina V ^a   Martelet, Claude ^b   Jaffrezic Renault, Nicole ^b   El'skaya, Anna V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Ukraine)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; GLYCOLS; TOXICITY;

GLYCOALKALOIDS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AGLYCONE SOLASODINE; ALKALOID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CHACONINE; CHOLINESTERASE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; SOLAMARGINE; SOLANINE; SOLANUM AMERICANUM EXTRACT; SOLANUM CRINITUM EXTRACT; SOLANUM JABRENSE EXTRACT; SOLASONINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKALOID; BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CREAM; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEVER; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENITAL HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; HYPOTENSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLANUM; TERATOGENICITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VOMITING;

ANIMALIA; SIMPLEXVIRUS; SOLANUM; SOLANUM AMERICANUM; SOLANUM CRINITUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 1242315530     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2004.01.009     Document Type: Review

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