Avaliação seminal de cão com Tumor Venéreo Transmissível após tratamento quimioterápico: relato de caso / Seminal evaluation of dog with Transmissible Venereal Tumor after chemotherapy: a case report
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| VETINDEX | ID: biblio-1492373
This paperreports a stray dog, SRD, with about three years old, collected by the Zoonosis ControlManagement Teresina, PI and taken to the kennel of Piauí Federal University with transmissible venereal tumoron the glans penis. After clinical evaluation, the animal was treated with vincristine sulfate in three weeklysessions, with complete remission of the nodules and semen collection was later performed for evaluation. Theresults of the parameters of volume, motility, vigor and sperm concentration were normal for dogs. Spermpathologies were revealed in 36% larger defects and 12% of minor defects. The test of fluorescent probes, 35%of the spermplasma membranes were intact and 54% of acrosomal membranes and a 48% mitoncondrialpotential, revealing that after chemotherapy, sperm structures are maintained with few functional alterationsbeing possible reentry dog for reproduction.