POISONING BY CARNAUBA (Copernicia prunifera, PALMAE) LEAVES IN RUMINANTS

Authors

  • Gildarte Araújo Pereira de Andrade Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-árido (UFERSA)
  • Raquel Ribeiro Barbosa Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-árido (UFERSA)
  • Jael Soares Batista Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-árido (UFERSA)
  • Benito Soto-Blanco Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-árido (UFERSA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v9i2.965

Keywords:

Sanidade Animal, toxicologia animal

Abstract

The use of leaves of Prunifera Copernicia (Arecaceae) as exclusive food of bovines was associated by the death of 40 of the 146 animals during a period of 2 months of consumption. The leaves of this plant had been supplied experimentally for two goats that died with 31 and 56 days the beginning of the ingestion. Clinical manifestations consisted in increased feces consistence, weakness, recumbence and death. The main pathological findings had been epithelial tubular degeneration and necrosis in the kidneys and hepatic centrolobular coagulative necrosis associated with congestion and hemorrhage. This work relates the mortality of bovines to the leaf consumption of Copernicia prunifera and characterizes it the experimental poisoning for this plant in goat.

 

KEY WORDS: Cattle, Copernicia prunifera, goats, poisonous plants.

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Published

2008-07-09

How to Cite

ANDRADE, G. A. P. de; BARBOSA, R. R.; BATISTA, J. S.; SOTO-BLANCO, B. POISONING BY CARNAUBA (Copernicia prunifera, PALMAE) LEAVES IN RUMINANTS. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 9, n. 2, p. 396–401, 2008. DOI: 10.5216/cab.v9i2.965. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/965. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2008)

Section

Veterinary Medicine

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