Conditioned food aversion to control Palicourea aeneofusca poisoning

Ciência Rural

Murilo Duarte Oliveira¹  Franklin Riet-correa¹  Genilson Barbosa Da Silva¹  Walkleber Dos Santos Pereira¹  Luis Flávio Souza Freire¹  Rosane Maria Trindade Medeiros¹ 

关键词: poisonous plants;    Palicourea spp.;    sodium monofluoroacetate;    conditioned food aversion;    plantas tóxicas;    Palicourea spp.;    monofluoroacetato de sódio;    aversão alimentar condicionada;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0103-8478cr20131369

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Palicourea aeneofusca contains sodium monofluoroacetate, which causes sudden death in ruminants when administered at doses of approximately 0.6g kg-1 of body weight (g kg-1). In this experiment two groups of 6 goats were used to determine the possibility to induce conditioned food aversion to P. aeneofusca. In group 1, 0.35g kg-1 of green leaves of the plant were given to six goats on days 1, 5, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 90 of the experiment. On the first day, all of the goats ingested the full amount of the plant and were treated immediately with 175mg kg-1 of lithium chloride (LiCl) through a ruminal tube. On day 5, only two goats ingested the plant, and they were treated with the same dose of LiCl. On days 10, 20, 30, 60, and 90, none of the goats ingested the plant. For another group of 6 goats, the leaves were given on days 1, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 90. All of the goats ingested the leaves on day 1 and received 1mL kg-1 body weight of water through a ruminal tube. All of these goats ingested the plant on days 10, 20, 30, 60, and 90. These results demonstrate that it is possible to induce conditioned food aversion to P. aeneofusca that persists for at least 90 days. Further experiments should be performed to determine the duration of the aversion and to induce aversion to other Palicourea species, particularly P. marcgravii, which is the most important toxic plant in Brazil.

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