Volume 37; Issue 2

Semina Ciências Agrárias

Volume 37; Issue 2
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The agouti, a rodent that is geographically distributed throughout South America, is greatly valued for its meat. This paper describes the arterial vascularization of the base of the agouti’s brain, characterizing behavior, and arterial origin and distribution. Ten animals from the Center for the Multiplication of Wild Animals (CEMAS/UFERSA) were used and the study was approved by SISBIO (report number 32413- 1) and the Ethics Committee on Animal Use (CEUA/UFERSA) (protocol 02/2010). After euthanasia, the animals were incised in the thoracic cavity by an injection of red-stained Neoprene latex 650 and the skulls were subsequently opened. The brains were extracted from the skulls for ventral surface analysis and then fixed in an aqueous 10%

Silva, Roberto Sávio Bessa da, Oliveira, Gleidson Benevides de, Junior, Carlos Magno Oliveira, Bezerra, Ferdinando Vinicius Fernandes, Câmara, Felipe Venceslau, Oliveira, Radan Elvis Matias de, Olivei
Journal:
Semina Ciências Agrárias
Year:
2016
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2016