Poisonous plants: Effects on embryo and fetal development

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 223-234

  Panter, Kip E ^a   Welch, Kevin D ^a   Gardner, Dale R ^a   Green, Benedict T ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Birth defects; Embryo development; Lupine; Nicotiana; Poison hemlock; Poisonous plants; Reproduction; Teratogenesis; Veratrum

Indexed keywords

ANABASINE; ANAGYRINE; CONIINE; CYCLOPAMINE; JERVINE; MIMOSINE; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; SWAINSONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERATRUM ALKALOID;

ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; BIRTH DEFECT; CATTLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLEFT PALATE; CONIUM; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CYCLOPIA; DATURA STRAMONIUM; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GOAT; HORSE; INGESTION; JOINT CONTRACTURE; LATHYRUS; LEUCAENA; LIMB DEFECT; LUPIN; MIMOSA; NICOTIANA GLAUCA; OXYTROPIS; POISONOUS PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRUNUS SEROTINA; SHEEP; SORGHUM (GENUS); SUDANGRASS; SWINE; TERATOGENESIS; TOBACCO; TOXICITY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; VERATRUM ALBUM; VERATRUM CALIFORNICUM; VERATRUM ESCHSCHOLTIZI;

ALKALOIDS; BIRTH DEFECTS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; LUPINE; NICOTIANA; POISON-HEMLOCK; POISONOUS PLANTS; REPRODUCTION; TERATOGENESIS; VERATRUM;

ANIMALS; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; LUPINUS; OXYTROPIS; PLANT POISONING; PLANTS, TOXIC; TERATOGENS; TOBACCO; VERATRUM;

EID: 84890335951     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.21053     Document Type: Article

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