"Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of ALKALOIDS, characterized by a nitrogen-containing necine, occurring mainly in plants of the BORAGINACEAE; COMPOSITAE; and LEGUMINOSAE plant families. They can be activated in the liver by hydrolysis of the ester and desaturation of the necine base to reactive electrophilic pyrrolic CYTOTOXINS.
| Descriptor ID |
D011763
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.132.716 D03.438.772
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