Final Flashcards
Effect of DDT toxicity in fish?
Repro
Neurotoxic
What gas is associated with a yellow haze in animal quarters?
Nitrogen oxide
Commercial test for cyanide poisoning? What kind of sample do you use? What color change is positive?
Sodium picrate paper test
Rumen contents or the plant
Change from yellow to brick red
Gasoline, kerosene, and petroleum distillates are what type of petroleum products and what do they cause?
Refined long-chain aliphatics
Aspiration pneumonia
How does calcium affect the toxicity of soluble oxalate?
Decreases
Lesions associated with petroleum products?
Ulceration in the trachea
Oil in bronchi or GIT
Degeneration and necrosis of liver and kidney (aliphatic hydrocarbons)
Toxins that cause death by inhibiting cytochrome oxidase?
H2S
Cyanide
DDX of fluoride toxicosis?
Vitamin D deficiency
Parathyroid disease
MOA of H2S?
Direct irritant of MM
Inhibits cytochrome oxidase -> inhibits cellular respiration
What is the toxic dose of HCN in all animals?
2-2.3 mg/kg (highly toxic)
Clinical signs of chronic cyanide poisoning?
Posterior paralysis
Incontinence
Cystitis
Possible goitrogenic effect
Effect of DDT toxicity in birds?
Eggshell thinning
How can nitrogen gas be converted to nitrate/nitrite?
Alkali
Bovine hyerkeratosis is associated with what toxin?
Petroleum (chlorinated naphthalenes)
Treatment of CO?
Oxygen
5% CO2
Blood transfusion
Fluids
What is the most important determinant of respiratory injury?
Solubility of the toxin
T/F: Most young plants are less toxic than mature plants
False
More toxic
What is the specimen of choice for diagnosing nitrite poisoning in dead animals?
Ocular fluid
MOA of chronic cyanide poisoning?
Neuronal degeneration and demyelination of the brain and spinal cord
Lesions of Nitrogen oxide?
Lung shit
Methemoglobinemia
Odor associated with nitrogen oxide?
Chlorine-like odor
MOA of irritants (smoke inhalation)
Chemically react on contact with mucous membranes to cause local effects
What type of fluoride toxicosis causes delayed mineralization of teeth?
Chronic
What are the characteristic lesions of nitrogen oxide gas toxicity?
Pulmonary edema
Methemoglobinemia
Where is fluoride mainly stored?
Bones and teeth
Lesions of H2S?
Dark blood, may not clot
Tissues are dark or green/purple
GI contents are black/gray and smell
T/F: Nitrite crosses the placenta
True
What toxin in associated with bloood-tinged froth?
Soluble oxalate
Adding murcuric chloride to a sample being tested for what poison will preserve it?
Cyanide
What treatments are generally contraindicated with petroleum poisoning?
Emetics
Gastric lavage
Glucocorticoids
T/F: Petroleum products with high boiling points are relatively non-toxic
True
At what percent COHb will death occur?
60-70%
Benzene, toluene, and xylene are what type of petroleum products and what do they cause?
Refined aromatic hydrocarbons
Bone mattow suppression
Sodium thiosulfate is used to treat what toxin and how does it work?
Cyanide
Converts CN- to thiocyanate (less toxic)
T/F: Emetics and gastric lavage are good treatments for petroleum poisoning
False
Generally contraindicated
What gas is reddish brown in color?
NO2
What are the best diagnostic samples for cyanide poisoning?
Brain and heart
Which is more readily absorbed, aromatic hydrocarbons or aliphatic hydrocarbons?
Aromatic hydrocarbons
Along with nitrite, what other toxins cause methemoglobinemia?
Copper
Acetominophen
T/F: Nitrate is 10x more toxic than nitrite
False
Nitrite is more toxic
Lesions of acute fluoride toxicosis?
Hemorrhagic gastroenteritis
Prognosis of petroleum poisoning?
Depends on severity
Guarded to poor in severe cases due to oil in the lungs
What form of absorption of petroleum products will cause aspiration pneumonia?
Absorption via GIT