*** CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION ***

RTECS NUMBER            : LZ0525000
CHEMICAL NAME           : Gitoxin
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER     : 4562-36-1
BEILSTEIN REFERENCE NO. : 0077015
REFERENCE               : 5-18-04-00388 (Beilstein Handbook Reference)
LAST UPDATED            : 199612
DATA ITEMS CITED        : 7
MOLECULAR FORMULA       : C41-H64-O14
MOLECULAR WEIGHT        : 781.05
WISWESSER LINE NOTATION : L E5 B666TJ A1 E1 GQ IQ F- DT5OV EHJ& OO- FT6OTJ B1
                          DQ CO- FT6OTJ B1 DQ CO- FT6OTJ B1 CQ DQ
COMPOUND DESCRIPTOR     : Natural Product
SYNONYMS/TRADE NAMES :
   * Anhydrogitalin
   * Bigitalin
   * Gitoxigenin-tridigitoxosid
   * Pseudodigitoxin
 
                       *** HEALTH HAZARD DATA ***
 
                        ** ACUTE TOXICITY DATA **
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Oral
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Mammal - cat
DOSE/DURATION           : >25 mg/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   AIPTAK Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Therapie. (Heymans
   Institute of Pharmacology, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium)  V.4-   
   1898-  Volume(issue)/page/year: 159,1,1966
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LDLo - Lowest published lethal dose
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Intravenous
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Mammal - cat
DOSE/DURATION           : 590 ug/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   TOXIA6 Toxicon.  (Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 OBW,
   UK)  V.1-    1962-  Volume(issue)/page/year: 8,85,1970
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LDLo - Lowest published lethal dose
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Unreported
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Mammal - cat
DOSE/DURATION           : 222 ug/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   JAPMA8 Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Scientific
   Edition.  (Washington, DC) V.29-49, 1940-60.  For publisher information, see
   JPMSAE.  Volume(issue)/page/year: 37,364,1948
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Oral
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - guinea pig
DOSE/DURATION           : >130 mg/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   AIPTAK Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Therapie. (Heymans
   Institute of Pharmacology, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium)  V.4-   
   1898-  Volume(issue)/page/year: 159,1,1966
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LDLo - Lowest published lethal dose
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Intravenous
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - guinea pig
DOSE/DURATION           : 4400 ug/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Cardiac - cardiomyopathy including infarction
   Lungs, Thorax, or Respiration - dyspnea
REFERENCE :
   AIPTAK Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Therapie. (Heymans
   Institute of Pharmacology, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium)  V.4-   
   1898-  Volume(issue)/page/year: 155,251,1965
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LDLo - Lowest published lethal dose
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Parenteral
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Bird - pigeon
DOSE/DURATION           : 1210 ug/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   CPBTAL Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin.  (Japan Pub. Trading Co., USA,
   1255 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103)  V.6-    1958-
   Volume(issue)/page/year: 11,613,1963

                              *** REVIEWS ***
 
   TOXICOLOGY REVIEW
   85ELDJ "Die Herzwirksamen Glykoside," Baumgarten, G., and W. Forster,
   Leipzig, Ger. Dem. Rep., VEB Georg Thieme, 1963  Volume(issue)/page/year:
   -,183,1963

 
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