(n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.
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Snakeroot
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.
Example Sentences:
(1) In view of the importance of white snakeroot in the history of the United States and the ongoing problems today, it would be most unfortunate if studies were not pursued expeditiously to identify the toxicant(s) responsible, and to understand the mechanism(s) of action and toxicity thresholds.
(2) Horses and goats are particularly sensitive to white snakeroot poisoning.
(3) Resurgence of livestock production on small farm units, and utilization of fresh raw milk may result in milk sickness; if the animals have white snakeroot exposure.
(4) In other animals and humans the toxicity thresholds of white snakeroot are not known, and that until responsible toxic principles are identified and their fate in animals and milk studied, such an assessment will not be possible.
(5) White snakeroot and rayless goldenrod pose a public health risk to individuals who might drink milk from a goat or cow grazing toxic amounts of these weeds.
(6) The toxic component(s) in white snakeroot has not been identified.
(7) Among plant toxicants excreted in milk is tremetol or tremetone, the toxin in white snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum) and rayless goldenrod (Haplopappus heterophyllus).
(8) Toxic products in white snakeroot were inactive in cell culture systems without microsomal activation.
(9) Components of white snakeroot, a plant toxic to livestock and human beings, were activated by Aroclor 1254-induced rat liver microsomes.
(10) This activation system revealed that at least 2 fractions of white snakeroot were metabolically activated to cytotoxic agents.
(11) Components of white snakeroot that are toxic after microsomal activation have been isolated.
(12) The autocatalytic inactivator of cytochrome P-450, 1-aminobenzotriazole, inhibited activation of white snakeroot constituents by rat liver microsomes.
(13) White snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum Houtt) has been known to cause trembles in animals and milk sickness in humans since the American Revolution.