Morfologia do órgão vomeronasal da paca (Cuniculus paca, Linnaeus 1766)

• Grant number: 14/08055-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Tais Harumi de Castro Sasahara
• Grantee: Mariana Costa e Silva Figueiredo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Paca has gained attention for several reasons such as the recent economic exploitation of the meat, giving it zoothecnical importance, and as a new experimental model to be applied in researches in human and veterinary fields. In this way, this project aims to describe the vomeronasal organ of paca (Cuniculus paca, Linanaeus 1766) in captivity by macroscopical anatomy and histological analysis. It will be used five adult pacas, male and females, weighting five to 10 kg, from the Animal Wild Sector (FCAV, Unesp, Jaboticabal-SP). The animals will be fixed in paraformaldehyde 10% followed by the dissection of the vomeronasal organ (VNO) to describe the macroscopical and topographical description. For microscopical analysis, the VNO fragments will be embedded in paraplast (Histosec-Merck) and process to conventional histological procedures. The sections will be analysed under light microscope.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARIANA C.S. FIGUEIREDO; LEONARDO M. LEAL; FABRÍCIO S. OLIVEIRA; LEANDRO L. MARTINS; SERGIO P. GARCIA FILHO; MARCIA R.F. MACHADO; TAIS H.C. SASAHARA. Morfologia do órgão vomeronasal da paca (Cuniculus paca Linnaeus, 1766). Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, v. 38, n. 10, p. 1999-2005, 2018-10-00. (14/08055-1)