Publication Date:
1983-06-24
Description:
Parenteral injection into mice of a toxic pentapeptide isolated from the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa induced thrombocytopenia, pulmonary thrombi, and hepatic congestion. The lethality of the toxin was unaffected by several anticoagulants. The acute liver damage that follows injection of the toxin has been attributed to direct action on liver cells but may be due to hypoxemia, heart failure, and shock.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Slatkin, D N -- Stoner, R D -- Adams, W H -- Kycia, J H -- Siegelman, H W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Jun 24;220(4604):1383-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6407109" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Bacterial Toxins
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Blood Coagulation Tests
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Cyanobacteria/*metabolism
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Female
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Liver/pathology
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Lung/pathology
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Marine Toxins/*adverse effects
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Mice
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Organ Size/drug effects
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Platelet Count
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Pulmonary Embolism/*chemically induced/microbiology/pathology
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Thrombocytopenia/chemically induced
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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