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- Calotropin is a toxic cardenolide found in plants in the family Asclepiadoideae. In extreme cases, calotropin poisoning can cause respiratory and cardiac...
- mixture of cardiac glycosides, including calactin, uscharin, calotoxin, and calotropin. These poisons work by inhibiting the sodium-pot****ium pump, and this...
- Calotropis species are toxic plants; calotropin, a compound in the latex, is more toxic than strychnine. Calotropin is similar in structure to two cardiac...
- its toxicity. In the case of the Calotropis glycosides, their names are calotropin, calotoxin, calactin, uscharidin and voruscharin.[citation needed] John...
- oleander (oleander tree): oleandrin Asclepias sp. (milkweed): asclepin, calotropin, uzarin, calactin, coroglucigenin, uzarigenin, oleandrin Adonis vernalis...
- cur****avica contains several cardiac glycosides, including asclepin, calotropin, uzarin and their free genins, calactin, coroglucigenin and uzarigenin...