Experiment 66971
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Rhus verniciflua (ANACARDIACEAE) |
| Citation | PARK,SD: LEE,SW: CHUN,JH: CHA,SH:. (2000). CLINICAL FEATURES OF 31 PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC CONTACT DERMATITIS DUE TO THE INGESTION OF RHUS (LACQUER).. 142(5) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A REVIEW OF THE CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL AND LABORATORY FINDINGS IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC CONTACT DERMATITIS CAUSED BY INTAKE OF RHUS. WE REVIEWED MEDICAL RECORDDS AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL SECTIONS FROM 31 PATIENTS DURING A 10-YEAR PERIOD. THE MALE/ FEMALE RATIO WAS 1.4:1 AND THE AVERAGE AGE WAS 43.8 YEARS. TEN PATIENTS HAD A KNOWN HISTORY OF ALLERGY TO LACQUER. RHUS WAS INGESTED TO TREAT GASTOINTESTINAL PROBLEMS INCLUDING INDIGESTION AND GASTRITIS AND AS A HEALTH FOOD, IN COOKED MEAT, IN HERBAL MEDICINE, OR TAKEN BY INHALATION. THE PATIENTS DEVELOPED SKIN LESIONS SUCH AS A MACULOPAPULAR ERUPTION ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME, ERYTHRODERMA PUSTULES, PURPURA, WEALS AND BLISTERS. |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | TYPE EXT NOT STATED |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |