Cycad Poisoning Studies on Spontaneous in Cattle in Japan and Experimentalcases
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Grazing cattle suflflering from ataxia and paralysis in hind quarters and horn damage were found in some detached is)ands of Okinawa prefecture, Japan, Clinical syndromes resembled the typical ones of the cycad poisoning reported previously in Papua, New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic. and Australia, Among these diseased cattle. two cows i-'ith seyere ciinical signs were examined pathologica]ly, The lesions in the spinal cords of these cattle also strongly suggested the cycad poisoning. Tb as certain the etiology of this "cycad ataxiab'-like clisease, we fed two cows experimentally with ieayes of Cycas revoluta Thunb,, indigenous to the region, Subsequently, for an appreach
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