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Cycasin is a carcinogenic and neurotoxic glucoside found in cycads such as Cycas revoluta and Zamia pumila. Symptoms of poisoning include vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, seizures, and hepatotoxicity. In metabolic conditions, cycasin is hydrolyzed into glucose and methylazoxymethanol (MAM), the latter of which dissociates into formaldehyde and diazomethane.[3]
It induces hepatotoxicity and Zamia staggers, a fatal nervous disease affecting cattle resulting from browsing on the leaves or other parts of cycads.[4]
^b-D-Glucosyloxyazoxymethane, ChemSpider
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^Laqueur, G. L.; Spatz, M. (November 1968). "Toxicology of Cycasin". Cancer Research. 28 (11): 2262–2267. PMID 4881504.
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Cycasin is a carcinogenic and neurotoxic glucoside found in cycads such as Cycas revoluta and Zamia pumila. Symptoms of poisoning include vomiting, diarrhea...
contains cycasin toxin and should not be eaten as it is possible for cycasin toxin to survive the most vigorous of repeated washings. Cycasin toxin can...
are highly poisonous: most parts of the plant contain the neurotoxins cycasin and BMAA. Consumption of cycad seeds has been implicated in the outbreak...
DNA synthesis. Its derivatives include methylazoxymethanol acetate and cycasin, which they are found in cycad. "Methylazoxymethanol – Compound Summary"...
erect in full sun, horizontal in shade. All parts of the plant contain Cycasin and an unknown nervous system toxin which are poisonous to animals, including...
water for several hours to remove the rest of the water-soluble toxin cycasin. The resulting paste was then left to ferment before being dried into a...
for cattle ranching. This plant is poisonous, producing a toxin called cycasin that affects the gastrointestinal tract and nervous system. The toxin can...
with blue-black "pupils". Due to their larval diet consisting of toxic cycasin-rich foodplants, many members of genus are involved within Müllerian mimicry...
The seeds are poisonous, containing the azoxyglycosides macrozamin and cycasin, and these are also present in the flesh, roots, stems and leaves, though...
of the Zamiaceae are poisonous, producing poisonous glycosides known as cycasins. The former family Stangeriaceae (which contained Bowenia and Stangeria)...
caterpillar feeds on cycads that contain a toxic secondary plant chemical (cycasin) that it retains in its body for life. Birds, lizards, and other animals...
of the past. Macrozamia fraseri contains poisonous glycosides known as cycasins. Hill, K.D. (2010). "Macrozamia fraseri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...
because of the degeneration of the spinal cord. It is caused by the toxins cycasin and macrozamin, β-glycosides (the sugars of which are glucose and primeverose...
toxins contained in the cone and other parts of the plant, macrozamin and cycasin, are produced in coralloid roots by nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. The...
the cycad having a higher concentration of azoxyglycosides, including cycasin and macrozamin, than other parts of the plant. Other toxins identified...
Sax) The cytogenetics of generic hybrids of Sorbus (1947, with Karl Sax) Cycasin: Radiomimetic effects (1965, with Karl Sax and H.J. Teas) Radiomimetic...
vulpecula, a common possum known locally as quumarl. The toxins macrozamin and cycasin are produced by cyanobacteria engaged in nitrogen fixing at their coralloid...
Castillo-Guevara, Citlalli; Rico-Gray, Victor (2007). "The Role of Macrozamin and Cycasin in Cycads (Cycadales) as Antiherbivore Defenses". Journal of the Torrey...
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