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| − | ==Acute hepatoxicity==
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| − | Almost invariably causes widespread haemorrhages in the body due to excessive consumption of the clotting factors in the damaged [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]] coupled with failure to produce these factors by the damaged [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]].
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| − | ===[[Blue-green Algae]]===
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| − | ===[[Iron]]===
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| − | ===Cresols===
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| − | *from tarred piggeries and clay pigeons
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| − | *produce massive necrosis in the [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]] of pigs
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| − | ====Clinical====
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| − | *jaundice
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| − | *weakness
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| − | *coma
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| − | *death
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| − | NB: former use of carbon tetrachloride as an anthelmintic and phosphorous as a rodenticide has produced [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]] necrosis
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