Cyanogenic Foods (Cassava, Fruit Kernels, and Cycad Seeds)

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 336-352

  Barceloux, Donald G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYANOHYDRIN; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; LINAMARIN; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL GLUCOSIDE; PLANT GLYCOSIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APPLE; CASSAVA; CYANIDE POISONING; CYCAS; DEMENTIA; DIZZINESS; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PEACH; PLANT INTOXICATION; PLANT SEED; POLYNEUROPATHY; REVIEW; SEED KERNEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA; TOXICOKINETICS; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ANIMALS; CYCADOPHYTA; FOOD POISONING; GLYCOSIDES; HUMANS; MALUS; MANIHOT; PLANT POISONING; PLANT ROOTS; PRUNUS; SEEDS;

EID: 65549117412     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2009.03.010     Document Type: Review

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