ANATOMIA DA ARTÉRIA AORTA E SUAS RAMIFICAÇÕES NO POMBO DOMÉSTICO (COLUMBA LIVIA– GMELIN, 1789)

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.3241925092

• Palavras-chave: Columba livia, Anatomia, Vascularização

• Keywords: Columba livia, Anatomy, Vascularization

• Abstract:

  The domestic pigeon (Columba

  Livia) is a common species in Brazil, Peru, Chile and Bolivia (RIBEIRO; TELES;

  MARUCH, 1995), but it originated in Asia and Africa and because it has great adaptation

  capacity, is widely distributed in planet. Studies on the anatomy of birds are scarce,

  both in the biological sciences and in veterinary medicine, with few reports on pigeon

  anatomy (FRANCESCHI et al, 2009). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty specimens

  of domestic pigeon (Columba livia) were used for the development of this study, adults,

  but without defined age, whose carcases were donated by IBAMA / MG / GO. In the

  laboratory of Comparative Anatomy of the UFG-RC, they were plucked and had the

  arterial system injected with latex. They were then fixed in 10% aqueous solution of

  formaldehyde and dissected for exposition of the vessels of the base of the heart

  and description of the aorta artery and its branches. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:

  The results inherent to this research are confronted only with those of Gallus galus

  (Gallus galus) in the face of the scarcity of literary data. CONCLUSION: The present

  study demonstrates that the anatomical pattern of the domestic pigeon is similar to the

  domestic cock, which contributes to the greater knowledge about the anatomy of this

  animal in veterinary clinical practice, as well as the knowledge of its biological system

  and specifically its arterial system.

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