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Year 2012 - Volume 32, Number 10
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Decreased expression of cardiac troponin C is associated with cardiac lesions in Amorimia exotropica poisoned cattle, 32(10):1005-1008
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ABSTRACT.- Pavarini S.P., Bandinelli M.B., Juffo G.D., Souza S.O., Driemeier D. & Cruz C.E.F. 2012. Decreased expression of cardiac troponin C is associated with cardiac lesions in Amorimia exotropica poisoned cattle. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 32(10):1005-1008. Setor de Patologia Veterinária, Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9090, Bairro Agronomia, Porto Alegre, RS 91540-000, Brazil. E-mail: claudio.cruz@ufrgs.br
The plants which cause sudden death of cattle in Brazil occupy a leading position for losses in the cattle industry. Amorimia exotropica is one of the plants pertaining to this group. Diagnostic findings in these cases may be inconclusive; further knowledge is necessary. This paper identifies cardiac lesions through anti-cardiac troponin C (cTnC) immunehistochemistry performed in tissues from cattle poisoned after consumption of A. exotropica in southern Brazil. Heart fragments from nine A. exotropica-poisoned cattle were studied immunohistochemically using anti-human cTnC as the primary antibody. In the hearts from all of the poisoned cattle, there was a sharp decrease in the cTnC expression level in the cytoplasm of groups of cardiomyocytes. A significant decrease in anti-cTnC immunoreactivity occurred particularly in degenerated or necrotic cardiomyocytes. Occasional groups of cells showed complete loss of immunolabeling. In the remaining intact cardiomyocytes from poisoned cattle and in cardiomyocytes from six cattle that died from other causes there was intense cytoplasmic staining. |
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