Porphyrogenic properties of the terpenes camphor, pinene, and thujone (with a note on historic implications for absinthe and the illness of Vincent van Gogh)
Authors
Bonkovsky, Herbert L.Cable, Edward Earl
Cable, Julia W.
Donohue, Susan E.
White, Emily C.
Greene, Yvonne J.
Lambrecht, Richard W.
Srivastava, Kishore K.
Arnold, Wilfred N.
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/OncologyGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
1992-06-09Keywords
5-Aminolevulinate Synthetase; Alcoholic Beverages; Animals; Camphor; Cells, Cultured; Chick Embryo; *Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; Deferoxamine; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Enzyme Induction; *Famous Persons; Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing); History, 19th Century; Liver; *Monoterpenes; Netherlands; Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating; Paintings; Porphyrias; Porphyrins; TerpenesLife Sciences
Medicine and Health Sciences