Studies On The Pathological Alterations In Rats Bue To Aoute And Chronic Effect of Euphorbia Prunifolia

The family Euphorbiaceae is a large wiooly spread poisonous plants all over the provences of Egypt Euphorhia prunifolia plant is considered one of the most;common Euphorhia in Egypt. The plant grows in associationwith summer crops and was considered one of the poisonous plantsIn the present work, rnor ph ope t h o l oo Lc a I studies onalhino rats wer~ performed to evaluate the acute and chronic effects of Euphorbia prunifolia plantThe whole parts of fresh green mature and seeding Euphor~ia prunifolia plant were collected from maize and8arseem fields in the fFlculty of Ve t.e r Lner y Medicine - Edfina, Alexundria University Ninty six rats of hoth sexes of about 2-3 months oldI from the same hreeding stock and weiqhiTlg from 120. - 200 IDried plant was mi~ed with treacleorern s \’IP re used .and milk to form a paste, then put in the form of pellets dried at room temperature and of f o r e d to animals as a food mixt.ureThe main pathological changesrepresented were sever