These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Photosensitisation and crystal-associated cholangiohepatopathy in sheep grazing Brachiaria decumbens.
    Author: Graydon RJ, Hamid H, Zahari P, Gardiner C.
    Journal: Aust Vet J; 1991 Jul; 68(7):234-6. PubMed ID: 1929990.
    Abstract:
    Two outbreaks of photosensitivity and jaundice in sheep grazing the grass, Brachiaria decumbens. In West Java in 1983 and 1983 and 1990 are described. Aggregates of acicular clefts and crystals were present in bile canaliculi, bile ducts, Kupffer cells, hepatocytes and in kidney tubules. The number of crystals increased with the length of exposure to the plant and sheep that died had the largest accumulations. These crystalline structures have been reported before in this syndrome, but are similar to those seen in Tribulus terrestris and Panicum spp toxicities.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]