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Experimental Brachiaria decumbens toxicity in cattle
M M Noordin1, A Salam Abdullah, M A Rajion
1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, Selangor.
Veterinary Research Communications
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Although Brachiaria decumbens was not toxic when fed to cattle, the infusion of rumen liquor from B. decumbens intoxicated sheep into the rumen of cattle produced evidence suggesting hepatic and renal dysfunction. Several biochemical changes were observed including increases in serum aspartate amino transferase, serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen and a marked reduction in the plasma bromosulphthalein clearance.

