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	Disabling Conditions In South Asia: The Hidden Factors, With Implications For Leprosy
		Some examples are lathyrism (severe physical impairment in people forced to rely on the grass pea as a major part of their food); iodine deficiency disorders (IDD, which result in goitre, cretinism, or deafness); cataract (causing serious visual impairment and blindness), and poliomyelitis.
		The first institutional service for lathyrism sufferers was probably the Mejah Cripples' Asylum (Allahabad), maintained "by the charity of the local rajas and land-holders under the supervision of the Tahsildar" (Steel 1884: 131-132, 203).
		Meanwhile, "biotechnical fixes" that remove the neurotoxic shadow from lathyrus sativus are being field-tested, a welcome advance; yet the availability of research funding may have more to do with the commercial potential of the grass pea as a strong, high-protein crop, than the protection of subsistence farmers from paralysis.
	www.disabilityworld.org /09-10_03/news/southasia.shtml (5715 words)

	Ethiopian Journal of Health Development - Vol. 19, No. 3 (2005)
		Objective: This study is aimed at investigating on whether lathyrism is still endemic in northern Ethiopia based on the March 26, 2004 report that appeared on the Amharic daily Addis Zemen, which indicated the occurrence of an epidemic where 400 people have been paralyzed in Legambo Woreda, south Wollo, Zone of ANRS.
		Conclusion: It important that lathyrism gets the attention of relevant governmental agencies that should ensure the existence of early waring systems to deal with food shortages promptly so that the rural population does not resort to consuming large amounts of grass pea.
		Lathyrism has to also be a reportable disease within the Ministry of Health system in those areas of northern Ethiopia when grass pea is cultivated.
	www.ajol.info /viewarticle.php?id=24736 (340 words)

	Stringhalt and shivers
		If your horse has gait problems, it may be because of his muscular system, neurological system, spinal cord or all three.
		Lathyrism is caused by ingestion of hay containing caley pea plants.
		Some cases of lathyrism in the U.S. have been linked to ingestion of sweet pea plants in poor pastures.
	www.horses-and-horse-information.com /articles/0298string.shtml (741 words)

	Lathyrism - Patient UK
		Lathyrism a disease caused by eating seeds of species of Lathyrus, mainly L. sativus (the chick pea), L. cicera (flat-podded vetch) and L. clymenum (Spanish vetchling).
		Lathyrism is not simply a paralytic syndrome as angiolathyrism causes sudden death.
		In many parts the knowledge of the dangers of lathyrism exists along with knowledge of how to detoxify it but drought can cause a shortage of fuel and water that prevents the necessary steps from being taken.
	www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/40000907 (1049 words)

	TOXILIT - Misra, U. K.//Sharma, V. P.//Singh, V. P. : Clinical aspects of neurolathyrism in Unnao, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To study the clinical picture of lathyrism in Unnao, India and compare it with that reported from other endemic areas, 41 patients from Unnao were studied.
		Their mean age was 42.9 years (range 22-85) and the mean duration of the illness was 17.1 years (range 2-30).
		Severe spasticity in the absence of prominent weakness in lathyrism may be due to the involvement of certain specific groups of corticospinal fibres.
	www.mib.ch /toxi/lit/p41813.html (220 words)

	Biomedical terms Lathyrism
		A paralytic condition of the legs caused by ingestion of lathyrogens, especially beta-aminopropionitrile, found in the seeds of plants of the genus Lathyrus (see FABACEAE).
		They are characterized by a mainly photosynthetic mode of nutrition; essentially unlimited growth at localized regions of cell divisions (MERISTEMS); cellulose within cells providing rigidity; the absence of organs of locomotion; absence of nervous and sensory systems; and an alteration of haploid and diploid generations.
		A plant genus in the family FABACEAE known for LATHYRISM poisoning.
	lifezilla.com /la/Lathyrism.html (187 words)

	Readings (Lecture 1: Toxicology and Epidemiology) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Epidemiological study of Lathyrism in North western districts of Bangladesh.
		Spencer PS, Schaumburg H H. (1983) Lathyrism: a neurotoxic disease.
		TekleHaimanot R and Lambein F (eds) (1997).‘Lathyrus and Lathyrism, a decade of progress).
	www.pitt.edu /~super1/lecture/lec1801/ref.htm (139 words)

	LATHYRISM
		Total paralysis is the final visitation of the disease known as Lathyrism.
		Consequently, outbreaks of lathyrism have occurred repeatedly throughout history and, today, tens of thousands affected during recent epidemics in Ethiopia, India, and Bangladesh, are permanently crippled.
		In parts of Asia and Africa this disease may cripple as many a 2.5 per cent of the population.
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	What is lathyrism? - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Consumed in large amounts during times of drought, a toxic syndrome, lathyrism, develops.
		And, yet, during extended droughts, grasspea is the single plant still green in the fields.
		People with marginal croplands are left with the choice--starvation or the risk of lathyrism.
	www.killerplants.com /plants-that-changed-history/20030114.asp (345 words)

	Indian Health Care Beliefs and Practices
		Lathyrism is a disease caused by eating certain plants of the genus Lathyrus and is characterized by irreversible muscular weakness and paraplegia.
		Nutritional deficiencies such as thiamine deficiency, pellagra, and lathyrism are common in India.
		Lathyrism is a crippling disease causing paralysis of leg muscles in adults who consume large quantifies of seeds of the pulse khesari and Lathyrus Sativus over a long period of time.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Charles_Kemp/indian_health.htm (6384 words)

	Find in a Library: The effects of experimental lathyrism on oral tissues
		The effects of experimental lathyrism on oral tissues
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	Poverty, Disability, and Development Aid in Economically Weaker Countries
		The earliest detailed account of lathyrism in North-East Africa, a third of this Russian article concerns cases in Abyssinia [Ethiopia] in 1896, where young doctor Holzinger was in a Russian Red Cross mission.
		He detailed the ill effects of lathyrus sativus (grass pea) consumption and presented twelve case histories of Galla [now Oromo] and Abyssinian people with lathyrism examined at Harar and Addis Ababa, many dating from the great famine of 1888-1892.
		It is more poignant because the people consuming the toxic pea are often aware of the risk; but the plant thrives when normal crops fail, and the very poor have no other recourse.
	www.disabilityworld.org /12-01_06/povertydisability.shtml (11396 words)

	Medical Dictionary: Lathyrism - WrongDiagnosis.com - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Lathyrism: A paralytic condition of the legs caused by ingestion of lathyrogens, especially beta-aminopropionitrile, found in the seeds of plants of the genus Lathyrus (see FABACEAE).
		Lathyrism : excessive ingestion of seeds of the legume genus Lathyrus, which contain beta aminopropionitrile, an inhibitor of the enzyme lysyl oxidase; the disease is characterized by spastic paraplegia, pain, hyperesthesia, and paresthesia.
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	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/lathyrism_printer.htm (164 words)

	STUDIES ON THE AETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF MOTOR NEURON DISEASES: 1. LATHYRISM: CLINICAL FINDINGS IN ESTABLISHED ...
		LATHYRISM: CLINICAL FINDINGS IN ESTABLISHED CASES -- LUDOLPH et al.
		Correspondence to: Correspondence to: Professor P. Spencer, Institute of Neurotoxicology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
		Lathyrism is a toxic disease of the motor system constantly
	brain.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/110/1/149 (403 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6880605 - Effects of induced lathyrism on /sup 85/Sr uptake in rats during late prenatal development
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		Effects of induced lathyrism on /sup 85/Sr uptake in rats during late prenatal development
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6880605 (200 words)

	lathyrism - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
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