Drimia maritima (L.) Stearn // Scilla maritima L. // Urginea maritima (L.) Baker

Family:
Asparagaceae
Approval state:
Approved
Number of articles retrieved:
305
Number of processed references:
6
Compositions
#1: Scillaren A in bulb #2: Proscillardin A in bulb #3: Bufadienolide = proscillaridin A
Endpoint Studies
#1: LD50 MALE/FEMALE RATIO #2: bulb powder - lethal for rats #3: bulb powder - lethal for pigs #4: marked hyperkalemia, conduction abnormalities and ventricular arrhythmias
Genotoxicity
Composition #1: Garcia Casado, P., Renedo, M. J., Fernandez, M., Vega, F. A. Proscillaridin A yield from Squill bulbs. pharmaceutica acta helvetiae, 1977, vol. 52, no. 9, p. 218–21. .
Composition #2: Garcia Casado, P., Renedo, M. J., Fernandez, M., Vega, F. A. Proscillaridin A yield from Squill bulbs. pharmaceutica acta helvetiae, 1977, vol. 52, no. 9, p. 218–21. .
Composition #3: El-Seedi, Hesham R., Burman, Robert., Mansour, Ahmed., Turki, Zaki., Boulos, Loutfy., Gullbo, Joachim., Goransson, Ulf. The traditional medical uses and cytotoxic activities of sixty-one Egyptian plants: Discovery of an active cardiac glycoside from Urginea maritima . journal of ethnopharmacology, 2013, vol. 145, no. 3, p. 746–757. DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.12.007. [DOI link]
Endpoint study #1: Radomski, Jack L., Woodard, Geoffrey. Present status of red squill as a rodenticide. journal of the american pharmaceutical association, scientific edition, 1946, vol. 35, p. 289–95. .
Endpoint study #2: O'connor, M.G., Buck, R.E., Fellers, C.R. Red Squill Investigations Properties, Toxicity, and Palatability of Red Squill and Powder Baits to Rats. industrial and engineering chemistry, 1935, vol. 27, no. 11, p. 1377–1380. DOI: 10.1021/ie50311a035. [DOI link]
Endpoint study #3: Gwatkin, R., Plummer, P J. Toxicity of Red Squill for Swine and Rats.. canadian journal of comparative medicine and veterinary science, 1943, vol. 7, no. 8, p. 244–9. .
Endpoint study #4: TUNCOK, Y., KOZAN, O., CAVDAR, C., GUVEN, H., FOWLER, J. URGINEA MARITIMA (SQUILL) TOXICITY. journal of toxicology-clinical toxicology, 1995, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 83–86. .