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Gota úrica visceral em tucano toco (Ramphastos toco)
| Resumo: | Birds are uricotelic animals, they excret uric acid as the chief component of nitrogen metabolism, which comes from the feeding or catabolism of corporal tissue. Considered a metabolic pathology, uric gout is characterized by the abnormal accumulation of uric acid crystals. Its occurrence is possible in two different ways: articular gout and visceral gout. This present work reports a case of visceral gout on toucan toco (Rampastos toco), diagnosed by gross anatomy and histopathology. |
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| Autores principais: | Coppola, Milena Pereira |
| Outros Autores: | Rodrigues, João Carlos Zamae; Baptista, Ana Angelita Sampaio; Sequeira, Júlio Lopes; Andreatti Filho, Raphael Lucio; Okamoto, Adriano Sakai |
| Assunto: | Uric acid Gout uric Toco toucan Ácido úrico Gota úrica Tucán Uric acid Gout uric Toco toucan |
| Ano: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | IBICT |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Oasisbr |
| Resumo: | Birds are uricotelic animals, they excret uric acid as the chief component of nitrogen metabolism, which comes from the feeding or catabolism of corporal tissue. Considered a metabolic pathology, uric gout is characterized by the abnormal accumulation of uric acid crystals. Its occurrence is possible in two different ways: articular gout and visceral gout. This present work reports a case of visceral gout on toucan toco (Rampastos toco), diagnosed by gross anatomy and histopathology. |
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