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| Author(s): |
Ricardo Basso Zanon
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: | 2013-02-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Eurico Possebon Cyrino;
José Fernando Machado Menten;
Ricardo Yuji Sado;
Roberto Sartori Filho;
Elisabeth Criscuolo Urbinati
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| Advisor: | Jose Eurico Possebon Cyrino |
| Abstract | |
Continuous stress negatively influences the immune system of farmed fish, increasing diseases susceptibility. In such a context, preventive measures, such as the administration of immunostimulants, are better suited for diseases control than using drugs and chemicals as remedies. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of dietary immunostimulants (levamisole and vitamin E) as well as the pharmacokinetic study of levamisole in juvenile of Pseudoplatystoma sp. Dietary levamisole did not affect growth parameters. However, increased lysozyme activity and lysozyme concentration, the best effects were recorded for fish fed 247 mg levamisole per kg of feed. In the vitamin E assay, no differences in growth parameters were recorded. However, vitamin E levels positively influenced the innate immune system increasing serum globulins at dose of 166 mg kg-1 of DL-?-tocoferol acetate. Also, at pharmacokinetic study levamisole is shown to be completely eliminated from fish blood on a 12-h period, being the distribution half-life (t1/2?) of 0.10 hours, whilst for the elimination interval the half-life (t1/2?) was 1.86 hours. (AU) | |