crotalaria sphaerocarpa/hemorrhage

Since 1984, a significant number of privately owned and feral horses on Easter Island have died of a syndrome consisting of progressive anorexia, weight loss, obtundation, and other central nervous system abnormalities. A single horse experiencing clinical signs of the reported syndrome was

Dry Crotalaria saltiana shoots were fed to strain ASL mice at 50, 10 and 1% of the diet. Feeding of Crotalaria shoots at 50 and 10% produced toxicity and death after 7 to 29 days. The signs of Crotalaria poisoning were inappetence, dullness, dyspnea and recumbency. The main lesions were necrosis,

Ten Nubian goats were given daily oral doses ranging from 0.5 to 10 g/kg/day of the fresh shoots of Crotalaria saltiana; they died at various times after dosing. The main signs of Crotalaria poisoning were dullness, dyspnea, inappetence, loss of condition and arching of the back. An increase in the

Monocrotaline, an alkaloid obtained from Crotalaria spectabilis, provides an experimental model for studies of mesangiolysis as seen in Habu venom poisoning and hemolytic-uremic syndrome. Renal lesions induced in rats by a single intraperitoneal administration of monocrotaline were examined by light

More often we are faced with the cases of young people (who are in a serious condition) who land in ICU, because of severe narcotics intoxication, which they took occasionally on the concerts, discotheques and social events. From 1997 we observed rapid increase of admission to hospitals due to

There is a paucity of data on the occurrence of hepatotoxic and hepatocarcinogenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in medicinal plants, and there are no data on the hepatotoxic properties of herbal medicines that are used in the traditional pharmacopoiea of Sri Lanka and other Asian and African countries.