From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   mimus99@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   > Hmm, researchers do seem to've finally settled (after a number of   
   > false starts) on a toxin, named pleurocybellaziridine, present in   
   > Pleurocybella at levels as high as 6 mg per gram, and which tests out   
   > neurotoxic in cell culture:   
   >   
   > http://www.namyco.org/publications/mcilvainea/v20/pleurocybella_toxin.html   
   >   
      
   Mushrooms are little chemistry sets.  The one's that kill or produce   
   some noticeable physical ailment draw the eye of researchers.  But, I   
   guess almost any mushroom, gourmet edible or otherwise, is making some   
   very interesting compounds, many yet to be discovered.   
      
      
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