FA Tox Flashcards
Coffee senna
Skeletal muscle in cattle
Cardiac muscle in chickens and goats
Liver in horses
Twin-leaf senna
Cardiac muscle in goats and chickens
Maybe also skeletal muscle in cows?
Lindheimer’s senna
Skeletal muscle in cattle
Cardiac muscle in chickens and goats
Rayless Goldenrod
Skeletal muscle (trembles)
White snake root
Skeletal muscle (trembles) in goats
Vitamin E and Se
Skeletal muscle (acute or chronic)
Clostridium
Skeletal muscle
Ionophores
Cardiac muscle in cows
Oleander
Cardiac muscle in cows and horses, sudden death
Cottonseed
Cardiac muscle (mono gastric) or repro (adult cows)
Yew
Cardiac muscle mainly in horses
Lupines (blue bonnets)
Teratogen (malformations)
Poison hemlock
Teratogen (malformations, death, dystocia) and CNS
False hellebore, skunk cabbage
Teratogen (cyclops and weird face bones)
Singletary pea
Teratogen and spinal (rear ataxia and paralysis)
Tree tobacco (nightshade)
Teratogen and CNS
Lead
CNS in cows > horses (central blindness, head pressing) and GI
Salt poisoning/water deprivation
CNS and GI
Organophosphates
CNS (muscarinic and nicotinic) and GI
Silver leaf nightshade
CNS and GI in cows and horses
Black nightshade
CNS and GI
Solanum ptycantum = in TX, okay
Solanum nigrum = not in TX, dangerous
Buffalo bur (nightshade)
CNS (SLUDGE) and GI
Horse nettle (nightshade)
CNS and GI
western = crazy cow syndrome Carolina = more toxic to cows
Texas Bull Nettle (nightshade)
Not toxic (irritation only)
Jimsonweed, thornapple
CNS (atropine-like effects) and GI
Texas, Ohio, red buckeye
CNS and GI (colic in horses)
Berlandier lobelia
CNS
Claviceps (dallisgrass, Bermuda grass, Bahia)
CNS (tremorgenic mycotoxin = dallisgrass tremors)
Coyotillo
Spinal (dog sitting)
Black Locust
Spinal (posterior paralysis)
Hairy/Warty Caltrops
Spinal (weakness in hindend, posterior paralysis)
Peavine Emory Loco
Spinal (rear ataxia and paralysis) in ruminants
Arsenic (insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, burned/painted wood)
Rapid severe GI (also liver and kidneys) and CNS
Pokeweed, pokeberry
GI (all species but esp rooting pigs)
Oak
GI (constipation) and kidney (red urine) in cows and horses
Buttercup
GI (ulcers)
Hairy vetch
GI and CNS (seeds) and skin (photosensitization in black animals)
St John’s wort
Primary Photosensitization
Bishops weed, Greater Ammi
Primary Photosensitization
Dutchman’s Breeches, Texas desert-rue
Primary Photosensitization
Lantana
Secondary photosensitization
Kochia weed, Mexican fire weed
Secondary photosensitization, sudden death (nitrate accumulator)
Goat head, puncture vine
Secondary photosensitization
Klinegrass
Secondary photosensitization (not in cows)
Milkweed, antelope horn, horsetail
Sudden death (cardiac glycosides)
Cocklebur
Sudden death (liver damage and hypoglycemia)
Wild plum, cherries, peaches
Sudden death (Cyanide)
Pigweed, carelessweed
Sudden death (nitrate accumulator)
Johnsongrass (sorghum forage)
Sudden death (nitrate and cyanide/Prussic acid accumulation)
Other sorghum forages (haygrazer, Sudan, Niki stubble) also cause cyanide and nitrate toxicity
Mountain mahogany
Sudden death (cyanide)
Water hemlock
Sudden death (muscle tremors due to toxic Alcohols)
Sweetclover
Sudden death (mycotoxin that affects vitamin K coagulation factors)
Sennabean, bag-pod Sesbania
Sudden death
Brackenfern
Sudden death (hemorrhage,tumors)
Blue green algae
Sudden death (neuro and liver toxins)
Castor bean
Sudden death (inhibits ribosomal protein synthesis)