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ReviewNeurotoxicity research2018

Neurotoxicity of Prosopis juliflora: from Natural Poisoning to Mechanism of Action of Its Piperidine Alkaloids.

Victor Diogenes Amaral da Silva, André Mario Mendes da Silva, Juliana Helena Castro E Silva, Silvia Lima Costa

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Review in Neurotoxicity research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A Systematic Review of Medicinal Plants of Kenya used in the Management of Bacterial Infections.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
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  4. Biomolecules · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Victor Diogenes Amaral da SilvaLaboratory of Neurochemistry and Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, 40110-100, Brazil. vdsilva@ufba.br.
André Mario Mendes da SilvaLaboratory of Neurochemistry and Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, 40110-100, Brazil.
Juliana Helena Castro E SilvaLaboratory of Neurochemistry and Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, 40110-100, Brazil.
Silvia Lima CostaLaboratory of Neurochemistry and Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, 40110-100, Brazil.
Universidade Federal da Bahia · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prosopis juliflora was introduced in northeastern Brazil in the 1940s, and since then, it has been available as an alternative for animal nutrition. However, the consumption of P. juliflora as main or sole source of food causes an illness in animals known locally as "cara torta" disease. Cattle and goats experimentally intoxicated presents neurotoxic damage in the central nervous system. Histologic lesions were mainly characterized by vacuolation and loss of neurons in trigeminal motor nuclei. Furthermore, mitochondrial damage in neurons and gliosis was reported in trigeminal nuclei of intoxicated cattle. Studies, using neural cell cultures, have reproduced the main cellular alterations visualized in cara torta disease and contributed to understanding the mechanism of action piperidine alkaloids, the main neurotoxic compound in P. juliflora leaves and pods. Here, we will present aspects of the biological and toxicological properties of P. juliflora and its pharmacologically active compounds.

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AnimalsHumansNeuronsNeurotoxinsPiperidinesProsopisNeurotoxinsPiperidinesAlgarobaGlial cellsMitochondriaNeuronPiperidine alkaloids

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PMID29340871
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