crotalaria/dyspnea

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

Twenty horses died 30 d after being fed a diet containing 40% of tritured Crotalaria juncea seeds. Before death, they had staggering, dyspnea and fever. At necropsy the most evident lesions were areas of lung parenchyma consolidation and enlarged and congested livers. Histopathological examination