Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Aconitine

Neurotoxin - Aconitine
Chemical formula - C34H47NO11

 Aconite - Aconitum napellus
It belongs to the Aconitum genus of flowering plant, branching from the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).



10 comments:

  1. So what might that actually do to a person?

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  2. Respiratory paralysis, cardiac arrest, and eventually death. There is no known antidote.

    According to the author of 'Akute Vergiftungen und Arzneimittelüberdosierungen', cited on Wikipedia, 'Oral doses as low as 1.5–6 mg aconitine were reported to be lethal in humans.'

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  3. The contrast between those two images is really cool for me, somehow. :3

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  4. yours is definitely my favorite new blog, keep up the good work.

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  5. where does one find this plant in the first place?

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  6. Deceptively deadly. Would you mind doing hemlock as well?

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  7. I should get one of those for maggie.

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  8. I wouldn't mind at all, Wondergecko. ♥

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  9. man i'm glad i never took chemistry. seems hard as hell for a guy with a short attention span like me.

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