gyromitrin (gyromitra toxin)

Epidemiology

• toxin found in false mushrooms
  • Gyromitra esculenta
  • Gyromitra ambigua
  • Gyromitra infula

Pathology

• can cause fatal poisonings
• gyromitrin (N-methyl-N-formylhydrazone) rapidly decomposes in the stomach to form acetaldehyde & N-methyl-N-formylhydrazine, which is converted to monomethylhydrazine by slow hydrolysis (see methylhydrazine)

More general terms

• toxin (hazardous material, poison)

Additional terms

• methylhydrazine

Database

• PubChem: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=9548611