kreotoxin
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas, “flesh, meat”) + toxin.
Noun
[edit]kreotoxin (plural kreotoxins)
- Any basic (pH > 7) toxin produced by bacteria or fungi in meat.
- 1921, The Eclectic Medical Journal - Volume 81, page 482:
- Kreotoxism is poisoning by decayed or infected meats, the basic poison being kreotoxin, produced by the growth and development of the plant micro—organism kreotoxiccon.
- 2002, Huang Ju-Ming, “Clinical study on the treatment of facial spas and blepharospasm with kreotoxin A”, in Zhejiang Clinical Medical Journal, volume 1:
- 39 cases of facial spas and 11 cases of blepharospasm, on whom common therapy had no effect, were locally injected kreotoxin A.
- 2016 March, Feng Xiang, Jing-Juan Feng, “Postoperative analgesic effect of methylene blue compound in anal diseases”, in International Journal of Clinical Experimental Medicine, volume 9, number 3:
- Methods including oral administration or intramuscular injection of analgesic drugs, local application of nitroglycerin ointment, and injection of kreotoxin have been commonly used to alleviate postoperative pain.