Alterações metabólicas e histopatológicas induzidas pelos inseticidas fentiona e espinosina em morcegos frugívoros / Metabolic and histopathologic changes induced by insecticides fenthion and spinosyns in fruit bats

AUTOR(ES)

Thales Simioni Amaral

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The increasing and indiscriminate use of different types of agrochemicals can directly affect the humans and animals, causing problems related to the nervous system, cancers, endocrine alterations, and hormonal changes such as inhibition of enzymes of the glycolytic and gluconeogenesis pathway, causing hyperglycemia and pathological changes. To evaluate the histopathological and metabolic effects of insecticides on bats Artibeus spp., the animals were submitted to the ingestion of food contaminated with insecticides fenthion and spinosyns. The dosage of the insecticides used was the same suggested for implementation in the fields of culture. After the treatment period (7 and 30 days for fenthion and 7 days for spinosad) were examined plasma concentrations of glucose, proteins and lipids in the liver, the muscles of the limbs and the pectoral muscle, lipids total fat and carcass, and histopathological analysis of liver tissue. The animals treated with fenthion showed no changes in glucose concentrations in any of the treatment groups. However, the group treated for 7 days showed an increased in the concentration of muscle glycogen and a decrease in fatty acids of the carcass, while the animals treated for 30 days did not differ when compared to the control group. The other parameters showed no changes in the group treated with fenthion for 7 and 30 days when compared to the control group. The morphological analysis showed a vacuolization in the hepatocytes of group treated for 7 days, promoting an increase of 30% in cell diameter compared to the control group. Animals treated with insecticide spinosad showed changes in the patterns of energy reserves only in the lipid of the back limb. It was observed an increase in the diameter of the hepatocytes in approximately 16% compared to the control group promoted by the vacuolization. In conclusion, we can say that organophosphate fenthion insecticide alters the energy metabolism and hepatic tissue of fruit bats, while the insecticide spinosad did not promote major changes in metabolic patterns of these animals, suggesting therefore that the spinosyns might replace other classes of more toxic pesticides.

ASSUNTO(S)

inseticida spinosyns metabolismo hepatocytes artibeus fentiona artibeus fenthion metabolism morcegos zoologia hepatócito bats espinosina insecticides

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