Structure and toxicity of the alkaloids of Russian comfrey (Symphytum x uplandicum Nyman), a medicinal herb and item of human diet

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Eight pyrrolizidine alkaloids of hepatotoxic type have been indentified in leaves of Symphytum × uplandicum The combined alkaloids exhibit chronic hepatotoxicity in rats. © 1980 Birkhäuser Verlag.

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Culvenor, C. C. J., Clarke, M., Edgar, J. A., Frahn, J. L., Jago, M. V., Peterson, J. E., & Smith, L. W. (1980). Structure and toxicity of the alkaloids of Russian comfrey (Symphytum x uplandicum Nyman), a medicinal herb and item of human diet. Experientia, 36(4), 377–379. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01975096

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