DEFICIÊNCIA DE TAURINA EM FILHOTE DE TAMANDUÁ-MIRIM (Tamandua tetradactyla) ALIMENTADO COM SUBSTITUTOS DE LEITE PARA CÃES E GATOS

作者：Marcela Miranda Luppi, Maria Elvira Loyola Teixeira-da-Costa, Marcelo de Campos Cordeiro Malta, Rafael Otávio Cançado Motta · 发表于：LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 年份：2008 · DOI：10.5216/cab.v9i4.951 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Metabolism and Genetic Disorders、Neonatal Health and Biochemistry、Aldose Reductase and Taurine

 The taurine is a sulphur amino acid that in most of the mammals produced in enough amounts in the liver, from metionine and cysteine, using the enzyme cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase. However, for felines are considered an essential amino acid, needing to be ingested as a supplement of the organism requirements. For anteaters the condition is not yet elucidated, but these animals have developed disease when fed with diet poor in this amino acid. The most frequent clinical sings observed in cats are dilated cardiomyopathy, retina degeneration, reproductive and development anomalies, increase of plaquetary aggregation, leucopenia and neurological disturbs. In the present case, a hand-hearing of collared-anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla) feeding milk substitutes for dogs and cats, presented taurine deficiency, characterized mainly for loss of coats and seizures. The diagnosis was based in reply of the animal to the supplement, after which gad regression of the clinical sings without return. KEY WORDS: Collared-anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla, taurine.