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Bufotoxins are a
family of
toxic steroid lactones or
substituted tryptamines of
which some are toxic. They
occur in the
parotoid glands, skin, and poison...
- glands,
which are
positioned obliquely. They
contain a
noxious substance,
bufotoxin,
which is used to
deter potential predators. The head
joins the body without...
- The main poison-producing glands, the parotoids,
produce the
neurotoxin bufotoxin and are
located behind the ears of toads,
along the
backs of frogs, behind...
- in the
glands contains a
number of
toxins causing different effects.
Bufotoxin is a
general term.
Different animals contain significantly different substances...
- the
frogs their nickname the "poison dart frog". Some
people use the
bufotoxins of some
species of
toxic toads as a drug to get high, but this can become...
- threatened, its
glands secrete a milky-white
fluid known as
bufotoxin.
Components of
bufotoxin are
toxic to many animals; even
human deaths have been recorded...
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thoroughly after handling one. The
poison of most if not all
toads contains bufotoxin. Formerly, the
genus Bufo encomp****ed many
species and was
divided into...
- the
bufadienolide group, also
found in (and
named for) the toad
venom bufotoxin.
Bulbs by Phillips,
Roger and Rix, Martyn, ed.
Brian Mathew, pub. Pan...
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alkaloid substances (depending on the species)
known collectively as
bufotoxins,
which act as
neurotoxins to
deter predation.
These cutaneous glands are...
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