This book provides a comprehensive treatment of natural toxicants in plants consumed by domestic animals and in crop plants used in human nutrition.

Natural Toxicants in Feeds, Forages, and Poisonous Plants also emphasizes the occurrence of toxins in plants, their metabolism and toxicologic effects in animals, and means of overcoming their effects.

This book will be useful as a text and reference to upper division undergraduate students, graduate students, professional resource managers and extension specialists.

Contents

1. Metabolic Toxicants and Their General Biological Effects
   1. Natural Toxicants and Their General Biological Effects
   2. Techniques and Calculations in Toxicology
   3. Metabolism and Metabolic Effects of Toxicants
   4. Ecological Roles of Plant Toxicants and Impacts on Livestock Production and Human Health

2. Toxicants in Animal Feeds
   5. Mycotoxins In Cereal Grains and Protein Supplements
   6. Toxins Intrinsic to Cereal Grains and Other Concentrate Feeds
   7. Toxins in Protein Supplements and Grain Legumes
   8. Toxins Produced by Feed Processing

3. Forage-Induced Toxicoses
   9. Toxicoses Associated with Forages in General
   10. Mycotoxins Associated with Forages
   11. Toxins Intrinsic to Forages

4. Plants Poisonous to Livestock
   12. Plants and Toxins Affecting the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver
   13. Neurotoxins, Cardiac/Pulmonary Toxins, and Nephrotoxins
   14. Reproductive Toxins
   15. Carcinogens and Metabolic Inhibitors
   16. Irritants, Dermatitic Agents, and Miscellaneous Toxins

Index

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