Citation

Ahid S, Ait El Cadi M, Meddah B, Cherrah Y. Ann. Biol. Clin. (JLE) 2012; 70(3): 263-268.

Vernacular Title

Atractylis gummifera : de l'intoxication aux méthodes analytiques.

Affiliation

Laboratoire de pharmacologie-toxicologie, Faculté de médecine et de pharmacie, Rabat ; Université Mohammed V Souissi, Rabat, Maroc.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, John Libbey Eurotext)

DOI

10.1684/abc.2012.0699

PMID

22565173

Abstract

Atractylis L gummifera is a plant that causes every year serious and often deadly poisonings. In Morocco, 153 cases of poisoning have been recorded between January 1980 and June 1995 by the Moroccan Antipoison Centre. The ignorance by the clinicians, the fast evolution and the frequency of these poisonings are the origin of diagnosis problems. The solution of those problems is to detect atractyloside and carboxyatractyloside in the biologic liquids. Since several decades, some toxicological analytical methods were established in view of an assay. The aim of our paper is to describe the poisoning by this plant and to review the methods of toxicological analysis used from the colorimetric technique until the news recent chromatographic methods.

Language: en