An indispensable toxin known for 2500 years: Victims of mad honey

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 1499-1504

  Demir Akca, Ayşe Semra ^a   Kahveci, Fatih Ozan ^a  

^a ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Grayanotoxin; Intoxication; Mad honey; Middle age

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; GRAYANOTOXIN I;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTOXICATION; MALE; NAUSEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VOMITING;

EID: 84870745294     PISSN: 13000144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/sag-1109-41     Document Type: Article

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