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    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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    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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  • aphrodisiac effect has not been clinically tested and is achieved by cantharidin inhibition of phosphodiesterase, protein phosphatase activity and stimulation...
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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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    Artificial fly Fly tying In medicine Apitherapy Apitoxin Melittin Spanish fly Cantharidin In mythology Bees in mythology Cicadas in mythology Scarab (artifact)...
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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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    chemical warfare agents, some naturally occurring substances such as cantharidin are also blister-producing agents (vesicants). Furanocoumarin, another...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    charged with poisoning of participants in an orgy by the use of cantharidin. Cantharidin is toxic to vertebrates, the aposematic colouration of the beetles...
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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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  • 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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    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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    started with mustard as an irritant, then Croton oil, acetic acid, oil of Cantharidin and chloroform and many others. These experiments led to the production...
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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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    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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    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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    in North America. Like other blister beetles, megetra vittata excrete cantharidin, a toxic chemical, to defend itself from predators. Animals such as horses...
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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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  • refer to: Acetosyringone, a chemical compound Atraric acid Brevifolin Cantharidin, a poisonous chemical compound secreted by many species of blister beetles...
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    Artificial fly Fly tying In medicine Apitherapy Apitoxin Melittin Spanish fly Cantharidin In mythology Bees in mythology Cicadas in mythology Scarab (artifact)...
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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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    Artificial fly Fly tying In medicine Apitherapy Apitoxin Melittin Spanish fly Cantharidin In mythology Bees in mythology Cicadas in mythology Scarab (artifact)...
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