Short Communication Complexes of Copper With Some Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids and With Some of Their Esterifying Acids

Abstract

Bull et al. (1956) and Bull and Dick (1959) have shown that the repeated intake of pyrrolizidine alkaloids of the plant Heliotropium europaeum can lead to severe liver damage, and to the abnormal accumulation of copper in the livers of sheep and rats.