Cantharidin is an odorless, colorless fatty substance of the terpenoid class, which is secreted by many species of blister beetles. Its main current use...

Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some...

preparations as "Cantharides". The insect is the source of the terpenoid cantharidin, a toxic blistering agent once used as an exfoliating agent, anti-rheumatic...

aphrodisiac effect has not been clinically tested and is achieved by cantharidin inhibition of phosphodiesterase, protein phosphatase activity and stimulation...

recommended above the others to shorten infection duration. Studies have found cantharidin to be an effective and safe treatment for removing molluscum contagiosum...

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(legs, neck, and antennae). This fluid is bright orange and contains cantharidin, a poisonous chemical compound. Wiping the chemical on skin can cause...

chemical warfare agents, some naturally occurring substances such as cantharidin are also blister-producing agents (vesicants). Furanocoumarin, another...

fatalities, particularly of horses. Cantharidin toxicity in an animal may be called cantharidiasis. The cantharidin content of one striped blister beetle...

experience stomach or intestine problems. Endothall is chemically related to cantharidin. Both compounds are protein phosphatase 2A inhibitors. Protein phosphatase...

and pressed onto the lesion for a few moments. Trichloroacetic acid Cantharidin is an extract of the blister beetle that causes epidermal necrosis and...

spots found on its black body. The brightness of the spots warns of the cantharidin toxins the beetle carries; this coloration is known as aposematism, and...

poison, cantharidin, is held within the tissue of the bird resulting in poisoning of those that eat the cooked goose. A dose of 10 mg of cantharidin can kill...

dermatitis", a term more properly used for the different dermatitis caused by cantharidin from blister beetles, is also sometimes used to describe paederus dermatitis...

1–2 mg/kg 0.001–0.002 Mercury(II) chloride (HgCl2) rat, oral 1 mg/kg 0.001 Cantharidin (from blister beetles) human, oral 500 μg/kg 0.0005 Aflatoxin B1 (from...

beetle, so called because if squeezed, it can produce an irritant called cantharidin that causes a blister on exposed human skin. Pyrota insulata is found...

Siebert, A.; Wenz, A.; Weber, H. (1942). "Die Synthese des Cantharidins" [The synthesis of cantharidin]. Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie. 551: 1–79. doi:10...

in North America. Like other blister beetles, megetra vittata excrete cantharidin, a toxic chemical, to defend itself from predators. Animals such as horses...

Oedemeridae families.: 449  Blister beetles secrete an irritant called cantharidin, a vesicant that can get onto humans if they touch the beetles. The term...

referring to the Spanish fly and other blister beetles that secrete cantharidin, a substance that is poisonous in large doses. Bradford, S. (2005). Lucrezia...

repeatedly and given Mercury(I) chloride (calomel) and several blisters of cantharidin to induce sweating. Washington died shortly after receiving this rigorous...

started with mustard as an irritant, then Croton oil, acetic acid, oil of Cantharidin and chloroform and many others. They led to the production of three papers...

charged with poisoning of participants in an orgy by the use of cantharidin. Cantharidin is toxic to vertebrates, the aposematic colouration of the beetles...

due to the ability to biosynthesize potent defensive blistering agent cantharidin. Seen in Karnataka "The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka; Conservation...

cause crop failures at times. As do other blister beetles, these produce cantharidin, a toxic terpenoid which can kill animals such as horses if they ingest...

under several different reaction conditions. Takemura et al. synthesized cantharidin in 1980 by Diels–Alder reaction, utilizing high pressure. Synthetic applications...

approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for genital warts. Cantharidin, found naturally in the bodies of many members of the beetle family Meloidae...

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into sweet potato tubers. Many members of the family are attracted to cantharidin, which they seem to accumulate and that deters possible predators. Synonyms...

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