Absence of arthrogryposis in newborn Hampshire pigs from sows ingesting toxic levels of jimsonweed during gestation

Keeler, R.F.

Veterinary and Human Toxicology 23(6): 413-415

1981


ISSN/ISBN: 0145-6296
PMID: 7336562
Document Number: 181786
No congenital arthrogryposis or other deformities were found in newborn Hampshire pigs born to sows administered Datura stramonium (jimsonweed) during the second or third months of pregnancy at levels producing marked clinical signs of toxicity in the dams. The results suggest that jimsonweed is not teratogenic in pigs, contrary to epidemiologic speculation by other workers.

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