Monocrotaline toxicity and pulmonary arteries.
Monocrotaline is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in plants implicated in livestock and human poisoning. Laboratory rats given monocrotaline develop pulmonary hypertension and right heart hypertrophy in the weeks following administration of the chemical. Lung weight increases and right heart hypertrop...
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The University of Arizona.
1988
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184533 |