Phytochemistry.
Publisher:
Pergamon Press.. London : Elsevier (2003)
Frequency: Twelve no. a year, Feb. 2012-
Country: England
Language: English
Start Year:1961 -
ISSN:
0031-9422 (Print)
1873-3700 (Electronic)
0031-9422 (Linking)
1873-3700 (Electronic)
0031-9422 (Linking)
Impact Factor
3.8
2022
| NLM ID: | 0151434 |
| (DNLM): | P15560000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01762365 |
| Coden: | PYTCAS |
| Classification: | W1 PH987K |
Tropane alkaloids and toxicity of Convolvulus arvensis. Horses in a few, localized northern Colorado pastures exhibited weight loss and colic. At post mortem, intestinal fibrosis and vascular sclerosis of the small intestine was identified. The pastures where the affected horses grazed were overrun by field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). Bindweed from the pasture was found to contain the tropane alkaloids tropine, pseudotropine, and tropinone and the pyrrolidine alkaloids cuscohygrine and hygrine. Laboratory mice readily ate C. arvensis and exhibited a variety of abnormal clinical signs depending on the amount eaten. Similar alkaloids have been f...