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SUBMITTER: Aziz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6154699 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aziz Mina M Sturtevant Drew D Winston Jordan J Collakova Eva E Jelesko John G JG Chapman Kent D KD
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20170429 5
Urushiols are the allergenic components of <i>Toxicodendron radicans</i> (poison ivy) as well as other Toxicodendron species. They are alk-(en)-yl catechol derivatives with a 15- or 17-carbon side chain having different degrees of unsaturation. Although several methods have been developed for analysis of urushiols in plant tissues, the in situ localization of the different urushiol congeners has not been reported. Here, we report on the first analysis of urushiols in poison ivy stems by matrix-a ...[more]