Production and use of egg-yolk antibody for detection of canine parvovirus in feces

Canine parvovirus (CPV), cause an intestinal disease characterized by bloody diarrhea, is often fatal in puppies. The virus is transmitted by contact with infected dogs or their feces. The virus is very stable in the environment and may survive for several months in contaminated areas. The CPV attacks the rapidly diving cells of the bone marrow and the small intestine. Several laboratory tests have been developed and are available for specific viral diagnosis. Where facilities are available, rapid diagnosis can be made by electron microscopy (EM) of fecal material from cases with typical signs of disease. The virus also can be isolated in several feline and canine cell lines such as canine and feline kidney cells, but isolation is seldom used in practice since cell cultures are required and at least 1 week for results is required. Fecal hemagglutination-hemagglutination (HA-HI) tests have provided a simple and rapid method for detecting virus in fecal and tissue samples and are employed by several diagnostic laboratories, however the HA test is less sensitive than EM or enzyme-linked immunoassays (ELISA). In this work, the laying chickens are immunized with the canine parvovirus strain Cornell 780916-80 and the egg yolk antibody (IgY) isolated and characterized by indirect ELISA to detect canine parvovirus in feces.

Chlorophyll level evaluation in tomatoes leaves of Santa Clara cultivar, of firme mutant and hybrid F1 - DOI: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v25i1.2110 / Avaliação dos níveis de clorofila em folhas de tomateiro da cultivar Santa Clara, do mutante firme e do híbrido F1 - DOI: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v25i1.2110

Recently, in Viçosa (MG), a region of vegetable crop producing, tomatoes of Santa Clara cultivar, Lycopersicum esculentum (Solanaceae), that showed potential use for breeding programs, aiming to increase the shelf life of the fruit were identified. However, plants from the mutant firme have precocious fealf senescence and reduction of the average fruit size when in homozygous background. The objective of the present study was the evaluation of the pigment levels in the leaves on different development positions and stage, utilizing the method described by Lichtenthaler (1987) and the SPAD (Soil Plant Analytical Division Value) in heterozygous mutant related to the progenitor Santa Clara cultivar and the homozygous mutant firme. Thus, two experiments containing two plants per vase grown in greenhouse and arranged at complete randomized way were set up. The data obtained through the Lichtenthaler (1987) method showed that the chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments were degraded earlier in the homozygous mutant firme in comparison to Santa Clara cultivar. While using the SPAD the heterozygous plants had similar rates of chlorophyll degradation to the Santa Clara cultivar. Based on data, it was possible to conclude that the mutation in heterozygous stage containing Santa Clara in its background had its effects on biochemical characteristics restored

Recentemente, na região produtora de hortaliças de Viçosa, Estado de Minas Gerais, foram identificadas plantas de tomate da cultivar Santa Clara, Lycopersicum esculentum (Solanaceae), que se mostraram potencialmente úteis em programas de melhoramento que visem aumentar a vida de prateleira de frutos. No entanto, essas plantas promissoras, denominadas de mutante firme, apresentam senescência foliar precoce e redução do tamanho médio dos frutos, quando o gene se encontra no estado homozigótico recessivo, sendo visualmente normal quando no estado heterozigótico. Assim o objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar os níveis de pigmentos foliares em diferentes posições da planta e em diferentes tempos de cultivo, pelos métodos descritos por Lichtenthaler (1987) e pelo índice SPAD (Soil Plant Analylitical Division Value), para verificar a ocorrência ou não de comportamento diferencial de indivíduos heterozigotos em relação aos progenitores Santa Clara e ao mutante firme. Para isso, foram realizados dois experimentos, empregando-se plantas cultivadas em vasos, submetidas a condições de casa-de-vegetação e arranjadas em delineamento inteiramente casualizado. Os resultados das análises, pelo método de Lichtenthaler (1987) mostraram que a clorofila e os pigmentos carotenóides são degradados mais precocemente no mutante firme em relação à cultivar Santa Clara. Além do que, pelo índice