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- Ranunculin is an unstable glucoside found in plants of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). On maceration, for example when the plant is wounded, it is...
- plants can be fatal. Toxic steroids occur in the roots. High levels of ranunculin and protoanemonin, especially in the leaves and sap, also contribute to...
- plant is wounded or macerated, the unstable glucoside found in the plant, ranunculin, is enzymatically broken down into glucose and the toxic protoanemonin...
- gastrointestinal tract. When Ranunculus plants are handled, naturally occurring ranunculin is broken down to form protoanemonin, which is known to cause contact...
- form. This plant, like other buttercups, contains the toxic glycoside ranunculin, which gives it a bitter, acid taste, so cases of poisoning in humans...
- Clematis and other plants in the buttercup family contain the compound ranunculin. Ranunculin is a glycosidic precursor that gets converted to the vesicant protoanemonin...
- plant, probably present in the leaves and stems, contain the glycoside ranunculin, which when ingested can cause abdominal pains and intestinal disorders...
- US states and eastern Canada. A. multifada is poisonous as it has high ranunculin content: about 8.1% in aerial parts and 4% in root per dry weight. "Anemone...
- cross in the early 1970s. ****eborus niger contains protoanemonin, or ranunculin, which has an acrid taste and can cause burning of the eyes, mouth and...
- enzymatic cleavage of ranunculin upon crushing plant matter. When a plant from this family is injured, a β-glucosidase cleaves ranunculin, liberating protoanemonin...