Livestock industries have maintained a keen interest in pasture legumes because of the
high protein content and nutritive value. Leguminous Indigofera plant species have been …

Indospicine (l-2-amino-6-amidinohexanoic acid) is a natural hepatotoxin found in all parts of
some Indigofera plants such as Indigofera linnaei and Indigofera spicata. Several studies …

The special nutritious value of camel showed high potential for market exploitation. In this
paper, a real-time PCR method targeting camel ingredient in camel meat and milk is …

Indospicine is a non-proteogenic amino acid that accumulates as the free amino acid in
livestock grazing Indigofera plant species and causes both reproductive losses and …

Ingestion of indospicine-contaminated camel and horse meat has caused fatal liver injury to
dogs in Australia, and it is currently not known if such contaminated meat may pose a human …

The known accumulation of the hepatotoxin indospicine in tissues of camels and cattle
grazing Indigofera pasture plants is unusual in that free amino acids would normally be …

Indospicine is a hepatotoxic non-proteinogenic amino acid that has only been found in
Indigofera plants including a number of species abundant in central Australia. These …

In vitro experiments have demonstrated that camel foregut-fluid has the capacity to
metabolize indospicine, a natural toxin which causes hepatotoxicosis, but such metabolism …

Camel adaptation to its arid and semi-arid environment and its genetic make-up created
some differences in its enzyme systems compared with other domestic animals. The camel …

Indospicine, a hepatotoxic arginine analog, occurs in leguminous plants of the Indigofera
genus and accumulates in the tissues of grazing animals that consume these plants …