Hypoglycemia and death in mice following experimental exposure to an extract of Trogia venenata mushrooms.

Hypoglycemia and death in mice following experimental exposure to an extract of Trogia venenata mushrooms.

BACKGROUND: Clusters of sudden unexplained death (SUD) in Yunnan Province, China, have been linked to eating Trogia venenata mushrooms. We evaluated the toxic effect of this mushroom on mice. METHODS: We prepared extracts of fresh T. venenata and Laccaria vinaceoavellanea mushrooms collected from th...

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Main Authors: GuoQing Shi, Jun He, Tao Shen, Robert E Fontaine, Lin Yang, ZhongYu Zhou, Hong Gao, YanFeng Xu, Chuan Qin, ZhuLiang Yang, JiKai Liu, WenLi Huang, Guang Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3380013?pdf=render

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