Responses to orally ingested Neotyphodium endophyte toxins in laboratory animals

Loline Alkaloid Gene Clusters of the Fungal Endophyte Neotyphodium Uncinatum

Alkaloid toxins in endophyte-infected grasses.

Grasses infected with clavicipitaceous fungi have been associated with a variety of diseases including classical ergotism in humans and animals, fescue foot and summer syndrome in cattle, and rye-grass staggers in sheep. During the last decade it has been recognized that many of these fungal infections are endophytic; a fungal endophyte is a fungus that grows entirely within the host plant. Ins...

Channelopathy and Essential Needs to Search in Venomous Animals for Toxins

Channelopathy and Essential Needs to Search in Venomous Animals for Toxins

Toxins of concern to animals and people.

Historically veterinarians have diagnosed accidental poisonings and identified possible terrorist events before they have come to the attention of public health authorities. There are many toxins that pose a threat to both humans and animals and the authors examine several of them here, namely, anthrax, tricothecenes, staphylococcal enterotoxin B, botulinum toxins, ricin, saxitoxin and dinoflag...