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J Anim Sci
July 1997
Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003, USA.
To evaluate treatments purportedly beneficial for livestock grazing locoweeds (LW), growing rats were fed diets containing 10 or 20% whole-plant Oxytropis sericea (LW) with and without Silent Herder mineral mix (1.5% of diet) or bentonite clay (1.5% of diet).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVet Hum Toxicol
October 1996
Hennepin Regional Poison Center, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA.
A 2 1/2-y-old spayed female cat was presented for lethargy and weakness. The cat was hypokalemic (3.1 m Eq K/L) and severely anemic (60% PVC, 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFT-2 toxin is an emetic trichothecene mycotoxin produced by Fusarium molds. This compound causes feed refusal, emesis and lesions in the gastrointestinal tract of livestock, poultry and man. Studies in our laboratory have indicated that the feeding of high fibre diets, non-nutritive mineral additives and high fat diets can largely overcome feed refusal caused when T-2 toxin is fed to rats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExperiments were conducted to determine the effect of bentonite and nonnutritive dietary polymers on toxicity and metabolism of T-2 toxin in rats. Male weanling rats were fed diets containing 5% bentonite, anion exchange resin, cation exchange resin or vermiculite-hydrobiotite. Each diet was fed with and without 3 micrograms T-2 toxin/g of feed for 2 wk.
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