Disease-A-Month
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 365-372 , June 2009

Grass Pea and Neurolathyrism (Lathyrus sativus L.)

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 This article was published in: Barceloux DG. Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances: Foods, Fungi, Medicinal Herbs, Toxic Plants, and Venomous Animals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. pp. 62-66. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

PII: S0011-5029(09)00031-5

doi: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2009.03.006

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