Experiment 46575
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | IN RATION |
| Organism | Cynodon plectostachyus (POACEAE) |
| Citation | HERRINGTON,MD:. (1972). EFFECT OF THYROXINE AND THYROID POWDER TREATMENT ON SHEEP SUFFERING FROM THYROID DYSFUNCTION.. 10(1) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | PREGNANT EWES GRAZING PRIMARILY ON THE TITLE PLANT GAVE BIRTH TO LAMBS WHICH WERE EITHER STILLBORN OR WHICH DIED WITHIN A FEW DAYS. TREATMENT OF THESE EWES WITH L-THYROXINE OR THYROID POWDER INCREASED PROTEIN-BOUND IODINE LEVELS IN THEIR BLOOD AS WELL AS IN THE BLOOD OF THEIR OFFSPRING. THE TREATMENT DID NOT PREVENT HIGH MORTALITY IN THE LAMBS AT OR SOON AFTER BIRTH. HISTOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THYROID GLANDS OF TREATED EWES WAS NORMAL WHEREAS THAT OF THEIR OFFSPRING WAS SLIGHTLY HYPERTROPHIC. |
| Dose amount | FS |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | EWE(PREGNANT) |
| Dose expression | CONC USED |
| Extract | PLANT |