ABSTRACT
Reproduziu-se experimentalmente o envenenamento crotálico, através da inoculação, por via subcutânea, do veneno de Crotalus durissus terrificus (cascavel sul-americana) em dez bovinos mestiços. Dois animais foram utilizados como controle. O bovino que recebeu dose de 0,03mg/kg de peso corporal, morreu 7h40min após a inoculação. A dose de 0,015mg/kg causou a morte em quatro de sete bovinos inoculados, enquanto os dois animais que receberam 0,0075mg/kg adoeceram discretamente e se recuperaram. Os sintomas tiveram início entre 1h30min e 13h45min após a inoculação. A evolução oscilou entre 5h25min e 45h para os animais que morreram e entre 33h15min e 17 dias entre os animais que se recuperaram. Os principais sinais nervosos observados foram diminuição da resposta aos estímulos externos, reflexos hipotônicos, arrastar dos cascos no solo, aparente apatia, paralisia do globo ocular e da língua, decúbito esternal e lateral. Verificaram-se também adipsia e, por vezes, petéquias nas mucosas vaginal e conjuntival. Houve discreto a moderado aumento do tempo de sangramento e moderado aumento do tempo de tromboplastina parcial ativada. Houve moderada leucocitose com neutrofilia, linfopenia relativa, eosinopenia, monocitose e discreto aumento do número de bastões. Foi evidenciado significativo aumento dos níveis séricos de creatinaquinase, contudo, não foram observadas alterações significativas através da urinálise. À necropsia constataram-se edema quase imperceptível no local da inoculação, discretas petéquias e sufusões no epicárdio, omento, vesícula biliar e mucosa da bexiga em alguns dos animais envenenados experimentalmente. Os exames histopatológicos revelaram necrose (hialinização) de grupos de miócitos ou em miócitos isolados em dez diferentes músculos esqueléticos examinados, próximos ou distantes do local de inoculação em todos os animais necropsiados. Concluí-se que o envenenamento por Crotalus Sul-americanas em bovinos não cursa com mioglobinúria...
Crotalus poisoning was experimentally reproduced by subcutaneous inoculation of Crotalus durissus terrificus (South American rattlesnake) venom into 10 clinically healthy mixed bred 12 to 36-month-old cattle, weighing 125 to 449 kg. Two animals were used as controls. The animal that received a dose of 0.03mg/kg body weight died 7h40min after inoculation. A 0.015mg/kg dose provoked death in 4 out of 7 young oxen. Two animals given 0.0075mg/kg became slightly sick and recovered. Onset of symptoms occurred from 1h30min to 13h45min after inoculation. The clinical course varied from 5h25min to 45h for animals that died, and from 33h15min to 17 days for animals that recovered. The main nervous signs observed were diminished response to external stimuli, hypotonic reflexes, dragging of the hooves, apathy, difficulties in moving around obstacles, ocular globe paralysis, lateral and sternal decubitus, and tongue paralysis. Adipsia and sometimes petechiae in the conjunctival and vaginal mucosa were observed. A slight to moderate increase in bleeding time was noted in 6 animals, and a moderate increase in partial thromboplastin time was found in 7 others. Moderate leukocytosis with neutrophilia, relative lymphopenia, eosinopenia, and monocytosis was found. There was a significant increase in creatine kinase serum levels of a ten-fold order. No significant alterations were revealed by urinalysis. Necropsy revealed minimal edema at the inoculation site, few petechiae and equimoses in the epicardium, omentum, biliary vesicle and bladder mucosa of some animals. Histopathological examination revealed necrosis (hyalinization) of groups or isolated myocytes in different muscles examined, both near and far from the inoculation site, in all animals. The diagnosis of Crotalus poisoning and its differentiation from diseases causing paralysis and muscular necrosis in cattle in Brazil are discussed.
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Animals , Male , Female , Cattle , Cattle , Crotalus cascavella/administration & dosage , Crotalus cascavella/blood , Crotalus cascavella/toxicity , Poisoning/epidemiology , Poisoning/pathology , Clinical Evolution/veterinary , Crotalid Venoms/toxicityABSTRACT
Este trabalho está dividido em três momentos, o primeiro trata-se de um estudo comparativo do efeito dos venenos brutos de Crotalus durissus terrificus; C. d. ruruima; C. d. cascavella e C. d. collilineatus, bem como da crotoxina e da crotamina sobre a junção neuromuscular. O veneno C. d. ruruima foi purificado pela primeira vez através de HPLC em uma coluna Protein Pack SW 300, onde foi obtida a crotoxina e a crotamina (os demais venenos já foram purificados e os dados publicados). O estudo neurotóxico foi realizado em duas preparações nervo-frênico diafragma de camundongo e biventer cervicis de pintainho. Dos experimentos realizados em mamíferos e aves obteve-se o efeito neurotóxico esperado nas concentrações de 10 mg/ml. Os venenos brutos e as crotoxinas das serpentes C. d. terrificus e C. d. ruruima em preparações de mamífero produziram aumento da amplitude seguido de bloqueio total da resposta contrátil, diferentemente dos venenos e das crotoxinas das serpentes C. d. cascaavella e C. d. collilineatus, que causaram apenas bloqueio total neuromuscular. Em preparações de aves os quatro venenos e crotoxinas estudados induziram bloqueio total, porém sem causar facilitação. As crotaminas-positivas, estudadas em nervo...
This work is divided at three moments, the first one if terrificus deals with a comparative study of the effect of the crude venoms of Crotalus durissus; C. d. ruruima; C. d. cascavella and C. d. collilineatus, as well as of the crotoxin and the crotamine on the junction neuromuscular. Venoms C. d. ruruima was purified for the first time through HPLC in a column Protein Pack sw 300, where it was gotten the crotoxin and the crotamine (the too much venoms already had been purified and the published data). The neurotoxic study nerve-frênico was carried through in two preparations diaphragm of mouse and to chick biventer cervicis. The experiments carried through in mammals and birds the waited neurotoxic effect in the was gotten concentrations of 10 mg/ml. The crude venoms and the crotoxin of rastnaks C. d. terrificus and C. d. ruruima in preparations of mammal had produced increase of the followed amplitude of complete blockade of the contractil reply, differently of the venoms and the crotoxin of rastnakes C. d. cascavella and C. d. collilineatus, that they had caused only complete blockade to neuromuscular. In preparations of birds the four studied venoms and crotoxin had induced complete blockade, however without causing facilitation. The crotamine-positive, studied in nerve-frenico diaphragm of mouse of snakes C. d. terrificus and C. d. ruruima, in the concentration of 10 mg/ml, had caused facilitatori effect returning to the 120 after amplitude have controlled min of incubation. When crotoxin ...
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Animals , Mice , Crotalid Venoms , Crotalus cascavella/administration & dosage , Crotoxin/adverse effects , Crotoxin/pharmacology , Neuromuscular Junction , Snake Venoms , SnakesABSTRACT
The present work aimed to evaluate the clinical and hematological aspects during experimental envenomation by Crotalus durissus terrificus in dogs treated with different antiophidic serum doses. Sixteen dogs were divided into two groups of eight animals each. Group I received 1mg/kg venom subcutaneously and 30mg antiophidic serum intravenously; Group II received 1mg/kg venom subcutaneously and 60mg antiophidic serum intravenously. In the clinical evaluation, we observed ataxia, moderate sedation, dilated pupils, sialorrhea, flaccid paralysis of mandibular muscles, and discreet edema at the site of venom inoculation. Evaluating red and white blood cells, we observed a decrease of hemoglobins, globular volume and erythrocytes, and an increase of plasmatic proteins, leukocytes, neutrophils, monocytes and lymphocytes. Clotting time increased and there was blood incoagulability with return to normal clotting time six hours after antiophidic serum administration. Animals treated with six antiophidic serum flasks had a faster recovery than the animals that received three serum flasks