Cottonseed Meals as the Primary Protein Supplement in Concentrate Feeds for Young Calves

Pathological and Toxicological Studies of Calves Fed a High Concentration Cotton Seed Meal Diet

“…* Lesions reported in young calves included hydroperitoneum, hydrothorax, and slow clotting of blood with fatty degeneration in the liver. 6 A second report indicated the major changes to be generalized edema and fluid effusion, which were most common in the thoracic cavity, pericardial sac, and peritoneal cavity.14 Edema was present in lungs, fat depots, kidneys, gall bladder, and other organs. Additional changes reported included acute toxic hepatitis, petechiation, gastroenteritis, and enlarged dilated hearts with areas of myocardial degenerati~n.…”

Hepatocarcinogenicity of Glandless Cottonseeds and Cottonseed Oil to Rainbow Trout ( Salmo gairdnerii )

“…Although the spatial relations between the retina and tectum have been extensively studied, relatively little information exists concerning order in the optic nerve. Recent anatomical studies have shown that axons of neighboring retinal ganglion cells are often near each other in the nerve (1)(2)(3). This result has been interpreted as evidence that the nerve is retinotopically ordered, and, in addition, that the order was instrumental in the original establishment of connections (4).…”

Effects of varying levels of dietary free gossypol in whole cotton seed on physiological responses of growing-fattening lambs

“…However, in that investigation, free gossypol was provided orally in gelatin capsules, which could have resulted in a more concentrated, undiluted dose of free gossypol being made available for intestinal absorption within a very brief period. High death losses in calves fed starters containing above 350 mg kg À1 of free gossypol have also been reported by Hollon et al 54 More recently, Kim et al 55 determined tissue residue levels of gossypol enantiomers in cottonseed-fed and lethally intoxicated lambs and reported that the highest residue level was found in liver tissue, eg 0.318±0.416 mg total gossypol kg À1 dry tissue. However, it should be noted that the present paper is a continuation of the paper by Kandylis et al 12 which describes results gathered from the same lambs and experimental diets as used here.…”