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| Author(s): |
Ricardo Yuji Sado
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2008-12-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Eurico Possebon Cyrino;
Margarida Maria Barros;
Raul Machado Neto;
Eliana Reiko Matushima;
Patricia Pauletti
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| Advisor: | Jose Eurico Possebon Cyrino |
| Abstract | |
The growth of aquaculture production as well as fish consumption can lead to intensification of fish production systems. The growing environmental concern regarding production of fish as food has required fish farmers to conform to Best Management Practices (BPMs), and that include reduction or, preferably, complete banning antibiotics from the production cycle through the use of immunostimulants. This study was set out to determine effects of different dietary additives (levamisole, vitamin E and mannan oligosaccharides - MOS) on biological, hematological and biochemical responses of pacu. All additives affected analyzed variables regarding to growth parameters and hematology. Levamisole presented time and dose efficacy, best results presented in fish supplemented with 100 mg kg-1 of dietary levamisole for 15 days. Vitamin E supplementation is essential for growth and maintenance of normal hematological values for pacu. In the present study, fish supplemented with 82.7 mg kg-1 of dietary vitamin E presented the best growth and no hematological disturbs. Dietary MOS did not present consistent results. Although not significant (p>0,05), MOS-supplemented fish presented higher total villi perimeter, in absolute values, than fish fed control diet. However studies regarding the mode of action of MOS as prebiotic for pacu as well as the effects of levamisole on fish growth are necessary. (AU) | |