Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids

Bioactive Compounds in Foods

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 10-30

  Crews, Colin ^a   Krska, Rudolf ^b  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Analytical methods; Carcinogenicity and mutagenicity; Gas chromatography; High performance liquid chromatography; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and their occurrence; Pyrrolizidines in herbal preparations; Toxicity and metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889376742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302288.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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