Many toxic plants are unpalatable, so animals avoid them where possible. However, this is not always the case; locoweeds, for example, are addictive and once a horse has eaten them, it will continue to eat them whenever possible, and can never be exposed to them again.
Micrograph of melanosis coli, with the characteristic mucosal lipofuscin-laden macrophages (brown). Melanosis coli, also pseudomelanosis coli, is a disorder of pigmentation of the wall of the colon, often identified at the time of colonoscopy.It is benign, and may have no significant correlation with disease. The brown pigment is lipofuscin in macrophages, not melanin.urther information: Factitious diarrhea. The most common cause of melanosis coli is the extended use of laxatives, and commonly anthraquinone containing laxatives such as Senna and other plant glycosides.
Cyanosis is a bluish color in the skin, lips and nail beds caused by a shortage of oxygen in the blood. Cyanosis occurs because blood with decreased oxygen turns blue or purple. This low-oxygen blood causes a blue-purple tint to the skin. What conditions cause cyanosis? Cyanosis is usually caused by problems of the heart, lungs or blood. Some of the defects or diseases that can cause a child to have cyanosis are: truncus arteriosus. total anomalous pulmonary venous return. transposition of the great arteries. tricuspid atresia. pulmonary atresia. atrioventricular canal defect. pulmonary hypertension.