Experiment 965724
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | IN RATION |
| Organism | Manihot esculenta (EUPHORBIACEAE) |
| Citation | KAMALU,BP: AGHARANYA,JC:. (1991). THE EFFECT OF A NUTRITIONALLY-BALANCED CASSAVA (MANIHOT ESCULENTA CRANTZ) DIET ON ENDOCRINE FUNCTION USING THE DOG AS A MODEL 2. THYROID.. 65(3) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | ANIMALS WERE FED DIET IN WHICH CASSAVA (RICE IN CONTROLS) PROVIDED THE CARBOHYDRATE. AFTER 14 WEEKS T3 LEVEL HAD RISEN BY ROUGHLY 40% IN EACH GROUP, WHILE IT HAD FALLEN BY 36% IN A THIRD GROUP FED RICE AND HCN. THYROID WEIGHT AFTER 14 WEEKS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT BETWEEN CONTROL AND CASSAVA-FED GROUPS, WHILE IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATED ABOVE CONTROL IN HCN TREATED GROUP. THIOCYANATE LEVELS WERE ELEVATED IN CASSAVA AND HCN-FED GROUPS THOUGH ONLY LATTER DEMONSTRATED THYROID HISTOPATHOLOGY. |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | INACTIVE |
| Animal | DOG |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | TUBER |