Plant Related Finals (also Shokry cumulative) Flashcards
What is Porcine Stress Syndrome caused by?
Selenium deficiency
All of the following plants contain a large amount of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_: Halogeton Lamb's Quarters Sorrel Greasewood Pigweed
Soluble oxalate
Which of these are passive accumulators of selenium? Which are obligate accumulators? Aster Corn Golden Wood Woody Aster Wheat Oats Locoweed Milk Vetch
Passive: corn, wheat, oats
Obligate: Golden wood, Woody aster, Locoweed, Milk vetch
Calcium oxalates are _____ (soluble/insoluble) and cause _____(systemic/local) effects, while sodium and potassium oxalate are _____ (soluble/insoluble) and cause _____(systemic/local) effects.
Insoluble - local
Soluble- systemic
Which of these are have insoluble calcium oxalate and which have soluble oxalate?
Beet Dumbcane Devil's Ivy Pigweed Arrowhead vine Chinese evergreen Purslane Sorrel Lamb's quarters
Insoluble: Dumbcane, Devil’s Ivy, Arrowhead vine, Chinese evergreen
Soluble: Beet, Pigweed, Purslane, Sorrel, Lamb’s quarters
What does selenium contaminated water cause in waterfowl?
Teratogenic effects
T/F: Elemental selenium is more readily absorbed than soluble organic selenium.
False, soluble organic selenium is more rapidly absorbed. Elemental selenium is insoluble.
What is more toxic when it comes to so soluble oxalate, a large amount over a short period or a small amount consumed daily for a long time?
Large amount over short period
What part of the plant contains the most soluble oxalate, the leaves, stems or seeds?
Leaves
What subacute toxicosis causes “Blind Staggers” in which species?
Selenium
Cattle
Which plant toxin can be treated with physostigmine?
Diterpene alkaloids (Buttercup family)
What essential trace element is a component of glutathione peroxidase and prevents peroxide accumulation through the reduction of glutathione?
Selenium
Which antimitotic alkaloid toxin is found in autumn crocus and glory lily?
Colchine
An acute toxicosis with this toxin if consumed orally involves GI signs, including colic, bloat and dark watery diarrhea, as well as respiratory signs. When the acute toxicosis is parenteral it causes neurological signs including mydriasis and incoordination. Which toxin is this?
Selenium
In which 2 ways do soluble oxalate damage the kidneys?
Calcium oxalate crystal formation blocking/damaging the tubules
Lack of energy
What acid toxin found in ponderosa pina and monterey cypress causes abortion in cattle by reducing the blood flow to the uterus, stimulating the release of fetal cortisol?
Isocupressic acid
What do the plant St.John’s wort and buckwheat cause due to the quinones they contain?
Primary photosensitization
You meet your buddy Steve at a bar to shoot some pool. Steve is pretty upset. He has a small pig farm with only one cow. Earlier today poor Benito Moosolini passed away. First he stopped eating and started walking around aimlessly and clumsily bumping into things. Then he collapsed and started walking on his knees. After that his corneas became cloudy, he developed colic, followed by a coma.
Soon after he was dead. What did Benito succumb to and should Steve be concerned for the dogs and cats on his farms? What about his pigs?
Selenium
The dogs and cats will be fine since they do not eat what most likely poisoned his cow.
For the pigs, he should test the selenium levels in the forage, and possibly add copper and protein (sulfur-containing if possible) to their diet
Animals that do not die from acute toxicity after soluble oxalate poisoning develop what chronic conditions?
Renal- chronic tubular nephrosis and polyuria
Name a few plants that cause hepatogenic photosensitization.
Lantana/yellow sage Rattlebox/Crotalaria Cocklebur Horsebrush Asike and Red clover Moldy alfalfa or wheat
What plant(s) causes Equine Nigropallidal Encephalomalacia aka Chewing disease?
Yellow Starthistle
Russian knapweed
T/F Selenium toxicity is reduced by high protein diets and copper ingestion.
True
The following lesions are observed in Hugh Heiffer during a necropsy: kidneys have a dark red cortex and medulla with a grey line separating cortex from medulla, there are petechial hemorrhage in the GI mucosa, the lungs are emphesematous and the esophagus is filled with blood-tinged froth. The rumen pH is alkaline. What killed Hugh?
Soluble oxalate poisoning
What toxin found in oak trees and Pride of Barbados causes mainly GI lesions and renal damage in ruminants and mainly GI lesions in monogastrics?
Tannic acid/ Tannins
T/F Generally green, unripe berries are more toxic than mature berries.
True
Which acid toxin found in members of the Vervain family, like Lantana or Yellow Sage, causes liver damage and hepatogenic photosensitization?
Triterpene acids
Which plant-related toxin leads to hypocalcemia and tetany in acute cases or affects bone and milk production in lower levels?
Soluble oxalate
What causes white muscle disease or nutritional muscle dystrophy in lambs, sometimes in calves and foals?
Selenium deficiency
T/F: Buckthorn and Coffee weed are emetics.
False, purgatives
This plant causes skeletal and cardiac muscle degeneration as well as myoglobinuria. It causes fatal liver disease in horses. It also contains anthraquinones glycosides as well as
Coffee weed/ senna
Which toxin causes sheep to pull their neck to one side, similar to cattle with Milk fever?
Soluble oxalates
What is the condition/reaction called that occurs only in areas of lightly pigmented or pigmented areas of the skin upon exposure to sunlight in genetically predisposed animals?
Photosensitization
What can the soil in the Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and around the Great Lakes deficient in?
Selenium
What is the metabolite of chlorophyll that causes photosensitization?
Phylloerythrin
What species is resistant to triterpene acid toxicity?
Horses
Which of these is correct in terms of toxicity?
Selenate=Selenite > Selenide >Organic selenium in plants
Selenide>Organic selenium in plants > Selenate>Selenite
Selenide = Senenate >Selenite >Organic selenium in plants
Organic selenium in plants > Selenate = Selenite > Selenide
Organic selenium in plants > Selenate = Selenite > Selenide
Which toxin found in Lakspur and Monkshood (members of the buttercup family) acts by competitively blocking nicotinic receptors at the muscle end plate similar to curare? What is an antidote?
Diterpene alkaloids
Physostigmine or neostigmine
T/F Ergot alkaloids cause vasodilation and hemorrhage.
False, cause vasoconstriction and gangrene.
Which acid or alkaloid toxin found in members of the legume family, such as locoweed and milkvetches, inhibits lysosomal enzymes essential for the formation of glycoproteins and alter cell functions in many systems including the brain?
Indolizidine alkaloids (Swainsonine)
What species is Locoism more common in?
Horses