Over a hundred cases of toxicosis due to weight reducing drugs containing thyroid preparations were recently observed in various areas in Japan. The most frequent cause was the drug "Baset Super" which contains 20mg of Jodocasein and 20mg of desiccated thyroid per tablet. Cases of toxicosis due to weight reducers containing Jodocasein have not previously been reported. The patients had generall...

Tall fescue is productive and well adapted to the soils and climate in a region commonly referred to as the “fescue belt”, which overlays the transition zone between the temperate northeast and subtropical southeast. Persistence of the grass under low input management is attributed to a fungal endophyte that infects most fescue plants and produces alkaloids that impart tolerance to heat, drough...

Observer rats interacted with conspecific demonstrators immediately after demonstrators ate a novel diet and were made ill by LiCl injection. Following their interaction with demonstrators, observers were tested for aversion to their ill demonstrator's diet. Previous research has shown that (a) an observer can extract information from a demonstrator sufficient to permit identification of the de...

Lilies are considered nephrotoxic only to domestic cats, which belong to the family Felidae of the suborder Feliformia. However, a 7-month-old female meerkat, belonging to the family Herpestidae of the suborder Feliformia, presented with oliguria, seizure, tachypnea, self-biting, and nystagmus after it ingested lilies. The meerkat died approximately 40 hr after lily ingestion. Gross and histopa...

The subjects in this study were outpatients in the Department of Obsterics and Gynecology who had no family history of diabetes, no history of previous heavyfor-date births, stillbirths or neonatal deaths of unknown causes, no history of hydramnious or severee toxicosis of pregnancy, no obesity of 20% or more above standard body weight, and who had neither hydramnious or severe toxicosis pregna...

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