Browsing by Subject "Livestock poisoning plants"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )Extracts of B. multiradiata and H. hoopsii were analyzed by GLC and GC-MS for the presence of a toxic sesquiterpene lactone, hymenoxon. A compound was found in both plants that co-chromatographed with hymenoxon on 3% OV-17 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The effects of bitterweed (Hymenoxys odorata) were studied on some aspects of carbohydrate metabolism in sheep. The integrity of the Embden-Meyerhof pathway was evaluated by measuring rates of glucose metabolism by red ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Hymenoxys odorata (bitterweed) is an economically important poisonous range plant indigenous to the southwestern United States. The sesquiterpene lactone (SL), hymenoxon, has been isolated from bitterweed and demonstrated ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The purpose of this investigation was to examine the toxic properties of Solarium dimidiatum and to establish how the toxicant acts upon the nervous system, causing the "Crazy Cow Syndrome." To obtain this information, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)Halostachine, a sympathomimetic amine present in tall fescue, was evaluated as a possible contributing agent in the development of fescue toxicity in cattle. A gas chromatographic method was developed for the analysis of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The toxicity of hymenoxon and hymenolane, two of the sesquiterpene lactone components of bitterweed, was evaluated by a single-administration oral toxicity test in sheep (the target species), with three dosage levels of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Oral route of exposure of sheep to the air-dried, aerial portions of Thamnosma texana (Dutchman's breeches), resulted in severe photosensitization. Animals fed the plant at 9 or 12 g/kg of body weight/day and held in direct ...