http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?pid=s1668-34982006000100012&script=sci_arttext
Coppo, J.A.1; Mussart, N.B.1; Barboza, N.N.1; Zeinsteger, P.A.1; Prado, W.S.2
1 Cátedra de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, UNNE, Sargento Cabral 2139, Corrientes (3400), Argentina. E-mail: jcoppo@vet.unne.edu.ar
2 Refugio «El Cachapé» (Chaco), Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina.
* Proyecto 16/Q-267 (CIDET, UNAM).
Recibido: mayo 2005. Aceptado: diciembre 2005. Versión on line: diciembre 2005.
Zoo alimentary system
caused lower total protein and albumin rates than those registered on
farmed caimans. Alimentary inadequacies are reflected on serum protein
concentrations2. Total protein and albumin serum values from R. catesbeiana were directly proportional to dietary protein quantity and quality3.
The change from a habitual food (bovine meat) to a new diet (flour of
meat and blood) produced serum albumin increase in caimans from
northeastern Argentina5.
Caimans, as all carnivorous reptiles, require high quality dietary
protein during captivity, able to replace the preys that constitute
their natural feeding; in warm climates, crocodile malnutrition is more
deleterious due to its simultaneous metabolic increase4.
Crocodile hypoproteinemia is related with immunitary depression,
because amino acids deficit interfere with the appropriate
inmunoglobulin synthesis11
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