Accidental intoxication with Veratrum album

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 768-773

  Grobosch, T ^a   Binscheck, T ^a   Martens, F ^b   Lampe, D ^a  

^a Berliner Betrieb F Zentrale G   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALCOHOL; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ATROPINE; CEVADINE; ELECTROLYTE; GENTIANA LUTEA EXTRACT; JERVINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; ONDANSETRON; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTOVERATRINE A; PROTOVERATRINE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERATRIDINE; VERATRUM ALBUM EXTRACT; ANTIDOTE; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CHARCOAL; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; VERATRUM ALKALOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; ACCIDENT; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENTIAN; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VERATRUM;

GENTIANA LUTEA; VERATRUM; VERATRUM ALBUM;

ACCIDENTS; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ANTIDOTES; ANTIEMETICS; CHARCOAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; GENTIANA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; VERATRUM; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS;

EID: 57349181263     PISSN: 01464760     EISSN: 01464760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jat/32.9.768     Document Type: Article

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