Plants used for poison fishing in tropical Africa

Toxicon

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 417-430

  Neuwinger, H D ^a  

^a D 68789 ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Fishing; Plant poisons; Poison fishing; Secondary metabolites; Tropical Africa

Indexed keywords

CURARE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; PLANT TOXIN; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ACANTHACEAE; ADENIA LOBAT; AFRICA; AGAVACEAE; ANACARDIACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; ANNONACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARACEAE; ARECACEAE; ASCLEPIADACEAE; BALANITES; BIGNONIACEAE; BURSERACEAE; CAESALPINIA; CARICACEAE; CELASTRACEAE; COMBRETACEAE; COMMELINACEAE; CONNARACEAE; CUCUMBER; DIOSCOREACEAE; EBENACEAE; EUPHORBIA; FISH; FISHING; FLACOURTIACEAE; GNIDIA KRAUSSIANA; GUTTIFERAE; LECYTHIDACEAE; LEGUME; LOGANIACEAE; MELIACEAE; MENISPERMACEAE; MORACEAE; MUNDULEA SERICEA; MYRTACEAE; NEORATANEMIA MITIS; NONHUMAN; OLACACEAE; ORCHIDACEAE; PASSION FRUIT; PLANT; POACEAE; POLYGALACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRYCHNOS; SWARTZIA MADAGASCARIENSIS; TEPHROSIA; TETRAPLEURA; TOXICOKINETICS;

ACULEATA; ADENIA; BALANITES; BALANITES AEGYPTIACA; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; GNIDIA KRAUSSIANA; MUNDULEA; MUNDULEA SERICEA; PAPILIONOIDEAE; STRYCHNOS; STRYCHNOS ACULEATA; SWARTZIA; TEPHROSIA; TEPHROSIA VOGELII; TETRAPLEURA TETRAPTERA;

EID: 4043077809     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.05.014     Document Type: Article

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