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Adaptative responses of myenteric neurons of Sphoeroides testudineus to environmental pollution

NeuroToxicology, 2020
Contamination in estuarine regions affects the local biota damaging the ecosystems and reaching humans. The gastrointestinal tract is a dynamic environment capable of obtaining nutrients and energy from food while it protects the host against harmful toxins and pathogens from the external environment.
Nascimento Goncalves, Alexandre Rodrigo, Marinsek, Gabriela Pustiglione, Souza Abessa, Denis Moledo de, Mari, Renata de Britto   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Multidecadal shifts in fish community diversity across a dynamic biogeographic transition zone

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 93-107, January 2020., 2020
Abstract Aim A 21‐year fisheries‐independent monitoring dataset was used to explore fish community diversity across a latitudinal gradient to quantify how diversity has changed and relate those changes in diversity to changes in the abiotic environment.
Brittany Troast, Richard Paperno, Geoffrey S. Cook   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Envenenamento fatal por baiacu (Tetrodontidae): relato de um caso em criança Fatal poisoning caused by puffer fish (Tetrodontidae): report of a case involving a child

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2010
É descrito um envenenamento pela ingestão de vísceras de um baiacu-pintado (Sphoeroides testudineus) por uma criança de dois anos, que apresentou sudorese fria, fraqueza muscular progressiva, parada cardiorrespiratória e morte.
Pedro de Lima Santana Neto, Elisabeth Cristina Moreira de Aquino, José Afrânio da Silva, Maria Lucineide Porto Amorim, Américo Ernesto de Oliveira Júnior, Vidal Haddad Júnior   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ocorrência e alimentação do baiacu Sphoeroides testudineus (Actinopterygii – Tetraodontiformes) na margem oeste da Baía de Todos os Santos, Bahia, Brasil

Sitientibus, Série Ciências Biológicas, 2011
Alexandre Clistenes De Alcântara Santos
exaly   +2 more sources

Length–weight relations of fishes inhabiting a hyperhaline coastal lagoon in Yucatan, Mexico [PDF]

Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2017
Length–weight relations (LWR) were estimated for 45 fish species (27 families) from a tropical hyperhaline coastal lagoon and a protected biosphere reserve located in Yucatan Peninsula. The following species were studied: Elops saurus Linnaeus,
M.E. Vega-Cendejas, M.A. Peralta-Meixueiro, M. Hernández De Santillana   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Length–weight relations of 70 fish species (Actinopterygii) from tropical coastal region of Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil [PDF]

Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2016
The presently reported study provides length–weight relations (LWR) of 70 fish species (Actinopterygii) from the tropical coastal region of Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil: Achirus declivis, Achirus lineatus, Anchoa spinifer, Anchoa tricolor ...
A.P. Viana, F. Lucena-Frédou, F. Ménard, T. Frédou, V. Ferreira, A.S. Lira, F. Le Loc’H   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Trends in Medicinal Uses of Edible Wild Vertebrates in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The use of food medicines is a widespread practice worldwide. In Brazil, such use is often associated with wild animals, mostly focusing on vertebrate species. Here we assessed taxonomic and ecological trends in traditional uses of wild edible vertebrates in the country, through an extensive ethnobiological database analysis. Our results showed that at
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, Ghee T. Tan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wild Animals Used as Food Medicine in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
The connection between eating and healing is common in traditional folk medical systems, and the multiple possibilities resulting from the combination of biodiversity and culture confer a wealth and complexity in terms of knowledge of the flora and fauna as to their potential as food medicine.
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Ierecê Lucena Rosa, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ichthyofauna Used in Traditional Medicine in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Fish represent the group of vertebrates with the largest number of species and the largest geographic distribution; they are also used in different ways by modern civilizations. The goal of this study was to compile the current knowledge on the use of ichthyofauna in zootherapeutic practices in Brazil, including ecological and conservational commentary
Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir, Carolina Alves Collier, Miguel Santana de Almeida Neto, Karina Maria de Souza Silva, Iamara da Silva Policarpo, Thiago Antonio S. Araújo, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cambios alimenticios en tres especies de Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) posterior al huracán Isidoro en Bocana de la Carbonera, Sureste del Golfo de México

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2010
Se analizan los cambios producidos por el huracán Isidoro en la repartición de los recursos alimenticios de tres especies de peces de la familia Tetraodontidae (Sphoeroides nephelus, S.
Sonia Eugenia Palacios-Sánchez, María Eugenia Vega-Cendejas   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources