Which of These Mushrooms Could Kill You?

There are tens of thousands of mushroom species out there, and some of them could kill you. Today we’re going to test how well you can separate the perfectly safe from the perilously poisonous, and dive into the chemistry behind what makes seemingly identical species so different. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Facebook! http://facebook.com/ACSReactions Twitter! http://twitter.com/ACSReactions Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/acsreactions/ Credits: Producer: Elaine Seward Writer: Samantha Jones, Ph.D. Scientific Consultants: Leila Duman, PhD Brianne Raccor, PhD, Jianping Xu, PhD Kathie Hodge, PhD Executive Producer: George Zaidan Executive Producer: Hilary Hudson Sources: New Insight into Mycochemical Profiles and Antioxidant Potential of Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms: A Review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31002608 Antioxidants of edible mushrooms https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26516828 Edible mushrooms as a ubiquitous source of essential fatty acids https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31554069 Anti-inflammatory properties of edible mushrooms: A review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29146352 Mushroom toxicity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537111/ New Studies on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms: History, Diversity, and Applications in Psychiatry. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26853956 Metabolism of psilocybin and psilocin: clinical and forensic toxicological relevance https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03602532.2016.1278228?journalCode=idmr20 NF-κB signaling in inflammation https://www.nature.com/articles/sigtrans201723 Compound Chemistry: The Chemistry of Mushroom Poisons https://i0.wp.com/www.compoundchem.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Chemistry-of-Mushrooms.png alpha-Amatoxin https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/alpha-Amatoxin Muscarine https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/9308 Atropine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470551/ Muscarinic Toxicity Among Family Members After Consumption of Mushrooms https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3702120/ Psilocybin induces schizophrenia-like psychosis in humans via a serotonin-2 agonist action https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00001756-199812010-00024 Amatoxin Mushroom Toxicity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431052/ Traditional knowledge and use of wild mushrooms by Mixtecs or Ñuu savi, the people of the rain, from Southeastern Mexico https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011354/ Gyromitra Mushroom Toxicity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470580/ The antioxidant activities of alkalic-extractable polysaccharides from Coprinus comatus on alcohol-induced liver injury in mice https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30104-6 Consumption of Coprinus comatus polysaccharide extract causes recovery of alcoholic liver damage in rats. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24597653 Mushrooms, Coprine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123864543007545 Amanita muscaria (fly agaric): from a shamanistic hallucinogen to the search for acetylcholine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29741535 Muscarine - mushroom hunting can be a dangerous sport https://natoxaq.ku.dk/toxin-of-the-week/muscarine/ Mushroom toxins https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123704672501693 Amanita phalloides mushroom poisoning https://www.jstor.org/stable/24248106?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Edible and Poisonous Fungi, 1924 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591572501802204 Magic Mushroom Drug Evolved to Mess with Insect Brains https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/magic-mushroom-drug-evolved-to-mess-with-insect-brains/ The whiff of danger https://www.nature.com/articles/4371248a Mushroom warning odors https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/497399?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Horizontal gene cluster transfer increased hallucinogenic mushroom diversity https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evl3.42 Mushroom poisoning epidemiology in the United States https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00275514.2018.1479561?journalCode=umyc20 Amanita phalloides Mushroom Poisonings — Northern California, December 2016 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6621a1.htm Acute Liver Failure Caused by Amanita phalloides Poisoning https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395149/ Methylhydrazine https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Methylhydrazine Modulation of Monomethylhydrazine-Induced Seizures by Ivermectin https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1853361-modulation-of-monomethylhydrazine-induced-seizures-by-ivermectin/?from_term=monomethylhydrazine&from_pos=2 Amanita muscaria: chemistry, biology, toxicology, and ethnomycology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0953756208611582 NAMA Mushroom Poisoning Syndromes https://namyco.org/mushroom_poisoning_syndromes.php#coprine Produced by the American Chemical Society. Join the American Chemical Society! http://bit.ly/Join_acsmembership