Toxicity of non-protein amino acids to humans and domestic animals

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-504

  Nunn, Peter B ^a   Bell, E Arthur ^b   Watson, Alison A ^c   Nash, Robert J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food chain; Natural products; Non protein amino acid; Toxicity; Toxin

Indexed keywords

3 AMINOPROPIONITRILE; BETA LEUCYL CYANOALANINE; BETA METHYLAMINO LEUCYL ALANINE; BETA N OXALYL LEUCYL ALPHA,BETA DIAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; CANALINE; CANAVANINE; DOMOIC ACID; HOMOARGININE; HYPOGLYCINE A; INDOSPICINE; LEUCYL 2 ( 3 AMINO 3 CARBOXYPROPYL)ISOXAZOLIN 5 ONE; LEUCYL 2 AMINO 4 OXALYLAMINOBUTANOIC ACID; LEUCYL 2,4 DIAMINOBUTANOIC ACID; LEUCYL 3 AMINO 2 OXALYLAMINOPROPANOIC ACID; LEUCYL METHIONINE SULPHOXIMINE; METHIIN; MIMOSINE; O OXALYL HOMOSERINE; PLANT TOXIN; SELENIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID;

ALFALFA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; LATHYRUS; LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS; LATHYRUS SATIVUS; LENTIL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTOXICITY; REVIEW; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; CHEMISTRY; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PLANT;

ANIMALIA; LATHYRUS; LENS CULINARIS; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LATHYRUS; LENS PLANT; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PLANTS;

EID: 77952511545     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000500329     Document Type: Review

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