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J Anal Toxicol ; 29(8): 838-41, 2005.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16356341

ABSTRACT

A case of a 25-year-old white male who was found dead the morning after consuming herbal extracts containing beta-carbolines and hallucinogenic tryptamines is presented. No anatomic cause of death was found at autopsy. Toxicologic analysis of the heart blood identified N,N-dimethyltryptamine (0.02 mg/L), 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (1.88 mg/L), tetrahydroharmine (0.38 mg/L), harmaline (0.07 mg/L), and harmine (0.17 mg/L). All substances were extracted by a single-step n-butyl chloride extraction following alkalinization with borate buffer. Detection and quantitation was performed using liquid chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometry. The medical examiner ruled that the cause of death was hallucinogenic amine intoxication, and the manner of death was undetermined.


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Banisteriopsis/poisoning , Methoxydimethyltryptamines/poisoning , Adult , Chromatography, Liquid , Fatal Outcome , Humans , Male , Mass Spectrometry , Methoxydimethyltryptamines/blood
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J Toxicol Clin Toxicol ; 42(2): 191-5, 2004.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15214625

ABSTRACT

The Internet may represent a new mechanism by which adolescents initiate the use of illicit substances. The existence of multiple partisan websites providing misinformation regarding the safety of these substances may lead to an increase in unsafe behavior among this age group. Adverse outcomes related to Internet-based drug information are rarely identified. We report a case of an adolescent whose use of the Internet to obtain drug information led to severe poisoning from the combination of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, harmaline, and a hallucinogenic tryptamine, 5-methoxydimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).


Subject(s)
Hallucinogens/poisoning , Harmaline/poisoning , Illicit Drugs/poisoning , Internet/standards , Methoxydimethyltryptamines/poisoning , Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors/poisoning , Adolescent , Deception , Drug Therapy, Combination , Humans , Information Dissemination/legislation & jurisprudence , Male , Plants, Toxic , Risk-Taking , Safety , Seeds/poisoning
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J Ethnopharmacol ; 41(1-2): 1-8, 1994 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8170151

ABSTRACT

Anthropologists have long speculated that ancient peoples of Mesoameria used a toad, Bufo marinus, as a ritual intoxicant. This hypothesis rests on many iconographic and mythological representations of toads and on a number of speculative ethnographic reports. The authors reject B. marinus as a candidate for such use because of the toxicity of its venom. A more likely candidate is the Sonoran desert toad, Bufo alvarius, which secretes large amounts of the potent known hallucinogen, 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT). The authors demonstrate that the venom of B. alvarius, although known to be toxic when consumed orally, may be safely smoked and is powerfully psychoactive by that route of administration. These experiments are the first documentation of an hallucinogenic agent from the animal kingdom, and they provide clear evidence of a psychoactive toad that could have been employed by Precolumbian peoples of the New World.


Subject(s)
Bufo marinus , Bufonidae , Hallucinogens/isolation & purification , Methoxydimethyltryptamines/isolation & purification , Venoms/isolation & purification , Animals , Hallucinogens/poisoning , Humans , Methoxydimethyltryptamines/poisoning , Plant Extracts/isolation & purification , Plant Extracts/poisoning , Venoms/poisoning
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Aust Vet J ; 67(10): 356-8, 1990 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2288538

ABSTRACT

The clinical signs displayed by 96 sheep affected by the nervous syndrome of Phalaris aquatica toxicity and 10 normal sheep injected intravenously with the phalaris alkaloid, 5-methoxy dimethyltryptamine (dose range 0.01 to 5.0 mg/kg), were observed. The distributions of phalaris indole-like cytoplasmic pigments in nuclei of the brains and spinal cords of 9 naturally affected sheep were determined microscopically. Based on the relationship between clinical signs and the central nervous system nuclei involved in their production, the distribution of phalaris indole-like pigments, and the pharmacology of dimethylated tryptamines, it is suggested that the nervous syndrome induced by Phalaris aquatica results from a direct action of phalaris alkaloids upon serotonergic receptors in specific brain and spinal cord nuclei.


Subject(s)
Central Nervous System Diseases/veterinary , Plant Poisoning/veterinary , Sheep Diseases/etiology , Alkaloids/poisoning , Animals , Brain Chemistry , Central Nervous System Diseases/etiology , Female , Indoles/analysis , Male , Methoxydimethyltryptamines/poisoning , Pigments, Biological/analysis , Plant Poisoning/etiology , Sheep , Spinal Cord/chemistry , Syndrome
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