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The endophyte produces ergot alkaloids that have been linked to decreased animal performance as well as toxicity problems.
Rye suffers from a peculiar disease called ergot, caused by the fungus Claviceps purpurea.
One of the first recorded attacks was in the seventh century BC when the Assyrians used a fungal disease called ergot to poison water supplies.
Bromocriptin from the wheat rust ergot, chemically mimics the effect of dopamine and can be added.
Mycotoxins commonly found in grains or feeds used in Nebraska are aflatoxins, ergot alkaloids, fumonisins, vomitoxin and zearalenone.
I have chosen to write about the evolution of the horse's chestnut as well as the ergot.
Detection of ergot alkaloids in stomach or rumen content is evidence of exposure.
Because of their ability to cause peripheral vasoconstriction, ergot alkaloids should not be used chronically.
One of the main illnesses treated at the hospital was ergotism, a disease caused by ergot, a fungus that grows especially on rye.
Such molds include ergot from claviceps species, aflatoxins from Aspergillus, and trichothecenes from Fusarium and Stachybotrys.
The Department of Agriculture has discovered sorghum ergot in a small area of forage sorghum growing in southern Western Australia.
Atropine, digitalis, ergot alkaloids, and diuretics may interact with phenylephrine.
The only widespread food poisoning in which bread has been a vector has resulted from ergot, a fungus infection of the rye plant.
Hofmann also isolated methergine, a drug used to treat postpartum hemorrhaging, from ergot.
Seriously though, Rufus knew that the problems commonly blamed on rye occur when the grain is moldy and has ergot, so he was careful never to buy moldy rye.
A related genus, Claviceps, includes C. purpurea, the cause of ergot of rye and ergotism in humans and domestic animals.
The review included 13 controlled trials of ergot derivatives.
In addition to aflatoxins, the Committee recommended that tolerance levels should be suggested for deoxynivalenol and ergot alkaloids.
He was conducting research on possible medical applications of various lysergic acid compounds derived from ergot, a fungus that develops on rye grass.
Normally the ergot is very close to the skin, but sometimes they grow out to an inch or more and can be unsightly when this hair is clipped for show purposes.
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Pituitary extract is recommended in cases of postpartum hemorrhage, but ergot is undoubtedly to be preferred.
Just before confinement send for one ounce of fluid extract of ergot and an original pint bottle of Squibb's Chloroform.
The chemical constituents of ergot are a fixed oil, trimethylamine, certain active principles, and colouring-matters.
The history of ergot of Rye is too fresh in the memory of most people to require more than an allusion here.
Salicin,62 ergot, guarana, have all been spoken of by enthusiasts as possessing valuable properties in diarrhoea.
All the poisonous symptoms of ergot are induced from continuously partaking of bread made with ergotised flour.
To prevent this the ergot should be well dried, and then placed in bottles or tin canisters, and closely preserved from the air.
The ergot is placed in a wide-mouth stoppered bottle, and covered with a thick layer of the powdered charcoal.
A small quantity of ether is dropped on the ergot contained in a bottle, and the latter closed with a well-fitting stopper.
According to M. Bonjean, this preparation possesses all the hmostatic without any of the poisonous qualities of ergot.
There was ergot in it, cleverly concealed by the natural smell and taste of the sauce.
A peculiar variety of sugar, extracted by alcohol from ergot of rye.
It may also be obtained by distilling ergot of rye with caustic potash.
Ergot is used in therapeutics as a haemostatic, and is very valuable in haemoptysis and sometimes in haematemesis.
Like the other medicines of this order, Ergot is not an excitor of the heart and circulation.
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