PESQUISA VETERINÁRIA BRASILEIRA

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ABSTRACT.- Mancini M., Rodriguez C., Prosperi C., Salinas V. & Bucco C. 2006. Main diseases of pejerrey (Odontesthes bonariensis) in central Argentina. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 26(4):205-210. Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Ruta Nac. 36 Km 601, Río Cuarto (5800) Córdoba, Argentina. E-mail: mmancini@ayv.unrc.edu.ar Argentina’s central region includes an important area covered by shallow pampean lakes and dams. In these environments, fishing of pejerrey Odontesthes bonariensis Valenciennes, 1835 (Pisces, Atherinopsidae), the most important fresh-water fish of the country, is a relevant social activity and also a considerable economic resource. The main diseases found in this species were studied from 1992 to 2003 in the provinces of Córdoba, La Rioja and Santa Fe (30° and 35° S, 61° and 67° W). Most cases were registered in high temperature months. Lernaea sp and Aeromonas hydrophila were the etiological agents most frequently found. The trophic characteristics of the aquatic environments enhanced disease processes and caused massive death of O. bonariensis, due to complex hydrochemical interactions.

• Odontesthes bonariensis fish diseases pathological agents water quality

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ABSTRACT.- Mancini M., Rodriguez C., Prosperi C., Salinas V. & Bucco C. 2006. Main diseases of pejerrey (Odontesthes bonariensis) in central Argentina. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 26(4):205-210. Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Ruta Nac. 36 Km 601, Río Cuarto (5800) Córdoba, Argentina. E-mail: mmancini@ayv.unrc.edu.ar Argentina’s central region includes an important area covered by shallow pampean lakes and dams. In these environments, fishing of pejerrey Odontesthes bonariensis Valenciennes, 1835 (Pisces, Atherinopsidae), the most important fresh-water fish of the country, is a relevant social activity and also a considerable economic resource. The main diseases found in this species were studied from 1992 to 2003 in the provinces of Córdoba, La Rioja and Santa Fe (30° and 35° S, 61° and 67° W). Most cases were registered in high temperature months. Lernaea sp and Aeromonas hydrophila were the etiological agents most frequently found. The trophic characteristics of the aquatic environments enhanced disease processes and caused massive death of O. bonariensis, due to complex hydrochemical interactions.

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ABSTRACT.- Mascaro U.C.P., Rodrigues L.A., Bastos J.K., Santos E. & Costa J.P.C. 1998. [LD50 in fish and rat produced by powdered roots of Derris spp and ecotoxicological implications.] Valores de DL50 em peixes e no rato tratados com pó de raízes de Derris spp e suas implicações ecotoxicológicas. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 18(2):53-56. Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Via do Café s/n, Ribeirão Preto, SP 14040-903, Brazil. True "timbós" from the Brazilian Amazon region, plants belonging to the genus Derris of the Leguminosae family, have there considerable importance, because they contain rotenoids which are toxic to fish and mammals. The aim of the study was to establish the lethal doses (LD50) for three phylogenetical different species of fish and also for the rat. The lethal dose for Collosoma macropomum (tambaqui) was 2.6 mg/ml, for Oreochromis niloticus (tilápia) 4.8 mg/ml, for Plecostomus sp (cascudo) 14.2 mg/ml and for Rattus norvegicus 100 mg/kg. The large differences between the lethal doses for the fish and the one for the rat are possibly due to different barrier tissues against the action of rotenoids in the mammal when given orally.

• Derris spp "timbó" roots toxicology fish rat raízes peixe rato.

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RESUMO.- Mascaro U.C.P., Rodrigues L.A., Bastos J.K., Santos E. & Costa J.P.C. 1998. [LD50 in fish and rat produced by powdered roots of Derris spp and ecotoxicological implications.] Valores de DL50 em peixes e no rato tratados com pó de raízes de Derris spp e suas implicações ecotoxicológicas. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 18(2):53-56. Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Via do Café s/n, Ribeirão Preto, SP 14040-903, Brazil. Os "timbós verdadeiros" (plantas do gênero Derris), originários da Amazônia Brasileira, tem demonstrado importância crescente por produzirem uma classe de compostos flavonoídicos relacionados à rotenona, que possuem atividade tóxica para peixes e mamíferos. Neste estudo foi determinado a dose letal 50% (DL50) do extrato alcoólico do pó de Derris spp para três espécies de peixes filogeneticamente diferentes e um mamífero roedor (rato). As DL50 de 2,6 microgramas/ml para Collosoma macropomum (tambaqui), 4,8 microgramas/mi para Oreochromis niloticus (tilápia), 14,2 microgramas/ml para Plecostomus sp (cascudo) e DL50 de 100,0 mg/kg para Rattus norvegicus (rato) denotam acentuadas diferenças entre os valores de DL50, principalmente entre os peixes e o rato. Isto possivelmente é devido a fatores farmacocinéticos que se relacionam com as diferentes barreiras teciduais encontradas pelos rotenóides quando administrados pela via oral em mamíferos.