Cantharidin is an odorless, colorless fatty substance of the terpenoid class, which is secreted by many species of blister beetles. Its main current use...
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Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some...
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Lytta vesicatoria (section Preparation of cantharidin)
preparations as "Cantharides". The insect is the source of the terpenoid cantharidin, a toxic blistering agent once used as an exfoliating agent, anti-rheumatic...
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chemical warfare agents, some naturally occurring substances such as cantharidin are also blister-producing agents (vesicants). Furanocoumarin, another...
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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...
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aphrodisiac effect has not been clinically tested and is achieved by cantharidin inhibition of phosphodiesterase, protein phosphatase activity and stimulation...
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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...
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and pressed onto the lesion for a few moments. Trichloroacetic acid Cantharidin is an extract of the blister beetle that causes epidermal necrosis and...
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Epicauta hirticornis produces a compound known as cantharidin. As a powerful vesicant, cantharidin produces intense irritation of the skin and when ingested...
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dermatitis", a term more properly used for the different dermatitis caused by cantharidin from blister beetles, is also sometimes used to describe paederus dermatitis...
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joints containing the chemical cantharidin. Larvae, by contrast, excrete a milky fluid from their mouth. Cantharidin is stored in the beetle's hemolymph...
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Oedemeridae families.: 449 Blister beetles secrete an irritant called cantharidin, a vesicant that can get onto humans if they touch the beetles. The term...
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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...
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fatalities, particularly of horses. Cantharidin toxicity in an animal may be called cantharidiasis. The cantharidin content of one striped blister beetle...
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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...
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repeatedly and given Mercury(I) chloride (calomel) and several blisters of cantharidin to induce sweating. Washington died shortly after receiving this rigorous...
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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...
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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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2) and PP1 (protein phosphatase 1). It is the hydrolysis product of cantharidin. Endothall "Cantharidic Acid | CAS 28874-45-5". Azoulay-Alfaguter I,...
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Miller, he overcame his opium addiction in 1933 with the administering of Cantharidin auto-serum therapy. He was given the nickname "Hero of History" (千古功臣)...
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America. They are called "blister beetles" because of a compound called cantharidin that causes blisters when coming in contact with skin. "Lytta vulnerata...
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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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Bromine Cadmium oxide Cadmium stearate Calcium arsenate Camphechlor Cantharidin Carbachol chloride Carbamic acid, Methyl-, O-(((2,4-Dimethyl-1...
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referring to the Spanish fly and other blister beetles that secrete cantharidin, a substance that is poisonous in large doses. Bradford, S. (2005). Lucrezia...
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experience stomach or intestine problems. Endothall is chemically related to cantharidin. Both compounds are protein phosphatase 2A inhibitors. Protein phosphatase...
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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...
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due to the ability to biosynthesize potent defensive blistering agent cantharidin. The beetle was traditionally used to treat tumors, carbuncle, scrofula...
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have been isolated from animals, bacteria and fungi. Examples include cantharidin from species of blister beetle, including the Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria...
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