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Infecções por Ascaridida/veterinária , Ascaridoidea , Encefalopatias/veterinária , Doenças dos Primatas , Animais , Infecções por Ascaridida/patologia , Ascaridoidea/isolamento & purificação , Encefalopatias/parasitologia , Encefalopatias/patologia , Cebidae , Cerebelo/parasitologia , Cerebelo/patologia , Colo/irrigação sanguínea , Granuloma , Larva , Masculino , Músculo Liso Vascular/parasitologia , Músculo Liso Vascular/patologia , Guaxinins , Veias/parasitologia , Veias/patologiaRESUMO
This paper is intended to increase medical practitioners' awareness of computer resources for poisonous plant identification. General features and specific search capabilities of 4 poisonous plant identification databases are given based on telephone calls to database authors and observations during database software testing.
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Bases de Dados Factuais , Intoxicação por Plantas/veterinária , Plantas Tóxicas , Animais , Sistemas Inteligentes , Intoxicação por Plantas/diagnósticoRESUMO
This article lists some basic guidelines for practitioners to use in treating wildlife patients. Major issues associated with wildlife practice are introduced. Important sources of equipment and major literature are contained in appendices.
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Doenças dos Animais , Animais Selvagens , Emergências/veterinária , Mamíferos , Répteis , Anestesia/veterinária , Doenças dos Animais/diagnóstico , Doenças dos Animais/terapia , Animais , Animais Selvagens/lesões , Autopsia/veterinária , Eutanásia/veterinária , Mamíferos/lesões , Répteis/lesões , Restrição Física/veterináriaRESUMO
Feathers serve as a useful, non-destructive approach for biomonitoring some aspects of environmental quality. Birds can eliminate over 90% of their body burden of mercury by sequestration in growing feathers, and they molt their feathers at least annually. Thus mercury concentrations should not vary in avian feathers as a function of age. We tested the null hypothesis that there are no age differences in the concentrations of mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, copper, chromium and manganese in the feathers of immature and adult common loons Gavia immer from the Northeastern United States where the species is declining. Adults had significantly higher mean levels of mercury (20245 ppb) than immature loons (9677 ppb), but there were no age-related differences for other elements. Even with the small number of immatures, females had significantly higher levels of mercury than males, although the gender difference was not significant for adults.
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An 11-yr-old captive-raised male woodchuck (Marmota monax) presented with ataxia, poor balance, left-sided weakness, circling to the left and nystagmus with the fast-phase directed towards the left. The clinical signs were compatible with a central vestibular deficit syndrome. Necropsy and histologic findings revealed a meningotheliomatous meningioma centered over the ventrolateral left pons and medulla along with acute bronchopneumonia, chronic glomerulopathy, interstitial nephritis, and phthisis bulbi.
