Acute selenium poisoning by paradise nuts (Lecythis ollaria)

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 431-434

  Müller, Dieter ^a   Desel, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hair loss; Lecythis ollaria; Paradise nuts; Plasma and urine; Poisoning; Selenium

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DEXPANTHENOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; IRON; MINOXIDIL; STEROID;

ADULT; ALOPECIA AREATA; ANTIANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTOXICATION; IRON THERAPY; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; NUT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RESTLESSNESS; SELENOSIS; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALOPECIA; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LECYTHIDACEAE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; NAUSEA; NUTS; PLANT POISONING; SELENIUM; TREES; VOMITING;

LECYTHIS OLLARIA; LECYTHIS ZABUCAJO;

EID: 77951171900     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327109360046     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Yang G., Wang S., Zhou R., Sun S. Endemic selenium intoxication of humans in china. Am J Clin Nutr 1983 ; 37: 872-881. (Pubitemid 13094874)
2. Kerdel-Vegas F., Wagner F., Russell PB, et al. Structure of the pharmacologically active factor in the seeds of Lecythis ollaria. Nature 1965 ; 205: 1186-1187.
3. Kerdel-Vegas F. The depilatory and cytotoxic action of Coco De Mono (Lecythis ollaria) and its relationship to chronic seleniosis. Economic Bot 1966 ; 20: 187-195.
4. Clark RF Selenium poisoning from a nutritional supplement. JAMA 1996 ; 275: 1087-1088.
5. Manati W., Vaillant F., Bost M., et al. Protective role of selenium supplementation against cardiac lesions induced by the combination of levomepromazine and risperidone in the rabbit. Hum Exp Toxicol 2009 ; 28: 461-467.
6. Nordberg GF (ed.). Handbook on the toxicology of metals. 3 rd ed. Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2007, p. 783-807.
7. Salonen IT, Alfthan G., Huttunen IK, Pikkaramen J., Puska P. Association between cardiovascular death and myocardial infarction and serum selenium in a matched-pair longitudinal study. Lancet 1982 ; 2: 175-179. (Pubitemid 12080517)
8. Ip C. The chemoprotective role of selenium in carcinogenesis. J Am Coll Toxicol 1986 ; 5: 7-20.
9. Dennis T., Fanous M., Mousaa S. Natural products for chemopreventive and adjunctive therapy in oncologic disease. Nutr Cancer 2009 ; 61: 587-597.
10. Dietary reference intakes for vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and carotinoids. Institute of medicine, Washington, DC. National Academies press, p. 310-311, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309069351&page=310 ( 2000, accessed October 2009).
11. McAdam PA Chronic toxicity and retention of dietary selenium fed to rats and D- or L-selenomethionine, selenite or selenate. Nutr Res 1987 ; 7: 601-610.
12. Sayato Y. Acute and subacute oral toxicity of seleno-cystine in mice. Jpn J Toxicol Environ Health 1993 ; 39: 289-296. (Pubitemid 23288051)
13. Taylor D., Dalton C., Hall A., et al. Recent developments in selenium research. Br Biomed Sci 2009 ; 66: 107-116.
14. Thomas L (ed.). Labor und Diagnose - Indikation und Bewertung von Laborbefunden für die medizinische Diagnostik. 7 th ed. TH-Books-Verl.-Ges.: Frankfurt/ Main 2008, p. 498-501.
15. Lin TH, Tseng WC, Cheng SY Direct determination of selenium in human blood plasma by graphite furnace atomic absorptionsspectrophotometry and clinical application. Biol Trace Elem Res 1998 ; 64: 133-149.
16. Barceloux DG Selenium. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 1999 ; 37: 145-172.
17. Rotruck JT, Pope AL, Ganther HE Selenium: biochemical role as a component of glutathione peroxidase. Science 1972 ; 179: 588-590.
18. Tapiero H., Townsend DM, Tew KD The antioxidant role of selenium and seleno-compounds. Biomed Pharmacother 2003 ; 57: 134-144. (Pubitemid 36734802)
19. Nuttall KL Evaluating selenium poisoning. Ann Clin Lab Sci 2006 ; 36: 409-420.
20. Levander OA, Alfthan G., Arvilommi H., et al. Bioavailability of selenium to finnish men as assessed by platelet glutathione peroxidase activity and other blood parameters. Am J Clin Nutr 1983 ; 37: 887-897.
21. Toxicological Profile for Selenium, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), September 2003. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/ tp92.html (accessed October 2009 ).
22. Alfthan G., Neve J. Reference values from serum selenium in various areas - evaluated according to the TRACY protocol. J Trace Elements Med Biol 1996 ; 10: 77-87. (Pubitemid 26231686)
23. Hou S., Zhu Z., Tan J. The relationship between the selenium dynamics in the course of human body growth and the Kashin-Beck disease epidemiology. Acta Geogr Sinica 1984 ; 39: 75-85.
24. Hammel C., Kyriakopoulos A., Behne D., et al. Protein-bound selenium in the seeds of coco de mono (Lecythis ollaria). J Trace Elem Med Biol 1996 ; 10: 96-102. (Pubitemid 26231688)
25. Gasmi A., Garnier R., Gaudillat C., et al. Acute selenium poisoning. Vet Hum Toxicol 1997 ; 39: 304-308. (Pubitemid 27413394)
26. Bopp BA, Sonders RC, Kesterton JW Metabolic fate of selected selenium compounds in laboratory animals and man. Drug Metabol Rev. 1982 ; 13: 271-318.
27. See K., Lavercombe PS, Dillon J., Ginsberg R. Accidental death from acute selenium poisoning. Med J Aust 2006 ; 185: 388-389. (Pubitemid 44540802)
28. Schrauzer GN, Surai PF Selenium in human and animal nutrition: resolved and unresolved issues. A partly historical treatise in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the biological essentiality of selenium, dedicated to the memory of Klaus Schwarz (1914-1978) on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of his death. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2009 ; 29 (1). 2-9.