Cantharidin is an odorless, colorless fatty substance of the terpenoid class, which is secreted by many species of blister beetles. Its main current use... 35 KB (3,170 words) - 23:47, 25 April 2024 |
Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some... 10 KB (699 words) - 22:41, 9 April 2024 |
Spanish fly (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... 19 KB (1,823 words) - 18:11, 21 January 2024 |
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... 7 KB (738 words) - 19:26, 4 March 2024 |
aphrodisiac effect has not been clinically tested and is achieved by cantharidin inhibition of phosphodiesterase, protein phosphatase activity and stimulation... 3 KB (270 words) - 01:43, 9 December 2023 |
(legs, neck, and antennae). This fluid is bright orange and contains cantharidin, a poisonous chemical compound. Wiping the chemical on skin can cause... 11 KB (965 words) - 23:27, 16 March 2024 |
and pressed onto the lesion for a few moments. Trichloroacetic acid Cantharidin is an extract of the blister beetle that causes epidermal necrosis and... 18 KB (2,159 words) - 06:47, 22 April 2024 |
the family Meloidae, Lytta vesicatoria. Spanish fly may also refer to: Cantharidin, a poisonous compound secreted by the Spanish fly, historically used... 1 KB (202 words) - 23:07, 6 March 2024 |
chemical warfare agents, some naturally occurring substances such as cantharidin are also blister-producing agents (vesicants). Furanocoumarin, another... 4 KB (344 words) - 15:00, 29 February 2024 |
joints containing the chemical cantharidin. Larvae, by contrast, excrete a milky fluid from their mouth. Cantharidin is stored in the beetle’s hemolymph... 21 KB (2,540 words) - 18:32, 22 April 2024 |
Oedemeridae families.: 449 Blister beetles secrete an irritant called cantharidin, a vesicant that can get onto humans if they touch the beetles. The term... 4 KB (321 words) - 04:24, 19 January 2024 |
referring to the Spanish fly and other blister beetles that secrete cantharidin, a substance that is poisonous in large doses. Bradford, S. (2005). Lucrezia... 3 KB (275 words) - 04:11, 1 April 2024 |
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... 1 KB (84 words) - 13:00, 9 December 2023 |
charged with poisoning of participants in an orgy by the use of cantharidin. Cantharidin is toxic to vertebrates, the aposematic colouration of the beetles... 5 KB (616 words) - 04:41, 3 January 2024 |
(estimated) 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... 52 KB (3,860 words) - 12:35, 31 March 2024 |
Bautista, L.M.; Blanco, G.; Alonso, J.C.; García-París, M. (2017). "Cantharidin is conserved across phylogeographic lineages and present in both morphs... 4 KB (491 words) - 09:01, 2 January 2024 |
fatalities, particularly of horses. Cantharidin toxicity in an animal may be called cantharidiasis. The cantharidin content of one striped blister beetle... 8 KB (944 words) - 20:57, 30 December 2023 |
due to the ability to biosynthesize potent defensive blistering agent cantharidin. The beetle was traditionally used to treat tumors, carbuncle, scrofula... 6 KB (669 words) - 21:58, 27 February 2024 |