A poisonous plant file in TOXLINE.

ABSTRACT

A file has been added to TOXLINE on the subject of the toxicology of poisonous plants. It contains 2508 records, each of which comprises the full reference, key words, Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number and abstract when available. A controlled vocabulary was constructed for the indexing and can be obtained from the National Technical Information Service. Searches can be made for several different data elements including authors; year; significant textwords of the title or abstract; journal or book; document type such as review or case report; geographic place at the level of continent, nation and state/province; plant species at the level of family, genus and species; plant parts involved; animal species affected including humans; type of harmful effects including major signs and lesions and chemicals.