Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds (Handbook of Natural Toxins, Vol 6)

This volume describes some of the new research published since volume 1 of the series, Plant and fungal toxins , was published in 1983. A few chapters update topics previously treated, but most describe in depth the toxicologic and chemical aspects of other topics. Thus volumes 1 and 6 together prov In this chapter we focus principally on the mammalian metabolism of the pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs).