Analysis of cardiac stomach and medial portion
of the posterior intestine of Prochilodus
lineatus fed with extract of Baccharis
dracunculifolia D.C. (Asteraceae)
Accepted 16th
July, 2018
Jeffesson de Oliveira-Lima¹*,
Bruno Fiorelini Pereira², João Rodolfo
Tuckumantel Valim, Thiago Gazoni¹, Dimitrius
Leonardo Pitol³ and Flavio Henrique Caetano¹
1Instituto de Biociências,
Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de
Mesquita Filho” - UNESP Campus de Rio Claro, São
Paulo, Brasil. 2Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da
Saúde, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia –
UFOB Campus de Barreiras, Bahia, Brasil. 3Faculdade de Odontologia,
Universidade de São Paulo – USP Campus de
Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brasil.
The leaves extract of
Baccharis dracunculifolia
is used in the treatment of diverse disorders, mainly digestive problems. This
study aimed to use the histochemistry and morphometry of cardiac stomach and
posterior intestine of
Prochilodus lineatus
to evaluate the effects of ingestion of the alcoholic extract of B.
dracunculifolia. Sixty individuals were used, of which 32 were divided into two
experimental groups in duplicate. These were randomly distributed in four 70-L
aquariums (eight animals each). Both groups were fed for a maximum period of 21
days: control group (fed with regular commercial feed) and
B. dracunculifolia
group (fed with the feed enriched with extract of
B. dracunculifolia).
After treatment, 6 animals per aquarium were collected at 14 and 21 days and
submitted to routine laboratory procedures. Histochemical and histomorphometric
changes were evaluated with ImageJ® software. The results showed that the
extract of
B. dracunculifolia,
added in the diet of curimbatás, can affect the morphometry of the villi of the
middle portion of posterior gut and cardiac stomach, as well as increase the
secretion by the caliciform cells of the studied regions.
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Cite this article as:
Oliveira-Lima J, Pereira BF, Valim JRT,
Gazoni T, Pitol DL, Caetano FH (2018). Analysis of cardiac stomach and medial
portion of the posterior intestine of
Prochilodus lineatus
fed with extract of
Baccharis dracunculifolia
D.C. (Asteraceae). Acad. J. Environ. Sci. 6(7): 165-173.
