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In the Discussion under the Biochemistry section- third sentence onwards should read as follows-
"The initial serum HBDH value (mean 165 U/l) in 33 dropsy patients was high as compared to 35 non-dropsy patients (mean 97, p<0.1). At 1-month follow-up in 17 patients, decrease in the levels was not statistically significant (mean 135 vs 128 U/l). This reflected the persisting of degenerative changes in cardiac muscles, even after stopping the consumption of adulterated oil, due to interaction of sanguinarine with cardiac glycoside receptor sites. This probably was the cause of fatigue observed, and its persistence at six months."
-in place of the existing 'The initial serum HBDH value (mean 165 U/l) in 33 dropsy patients was high as compared to 35 non-dropsy patients (mean 97, pfatigue observed, and its persistence at six months.'
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1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009279718300516
Chemico-Biological Interactions Volume 287, 1 May 2018, Pages 57-69
Argemone oil, an edible oil adulterant, induces systemic immunosuppression in Balb/c mice in an oral 28 days repeated dose toxicity study
PayalMandal, PrachiTewaria, SachinKumar SarikaYadav AnjaneyaAyanur Rajnish K.Chaturvedi MukulDas AnuragTripathi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2018.04.013
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Assessing the risk of epidemic dropsy from black salve use
Andrew Croaker Graham J. King John H. Pyne Shailendra Anoopkumar?Dukie Lei Liu
First published: 30 March 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/jat.3619