| detection of antibodies to a pathogenic mycoplasma in american alligators (alligator mississippiensis), broad-nosed caimans (caiman latirostris), and siamese crocodiles (crocodylus siamensis). | an epidemic of pneumonia with fibrinous polyserositis and multifocal arthritis emerged in captive american alligators (alligator mississippiensis) in florida, united states, in 1995. mycoplasma alligatoris sp. nov. was cultured from multiple organs, peripheral blood, synovial fluid, and cerebrospinal fluid of affected alligators. in a subsequent experimental inoculation study, the henle-koch-evans postulates were fulfilled for m. alligatoris as the etiological agent of fatal mycoplasmosis of all ... | 2001 | 11136785 |
| reticular formation in reptiles. a. cytoarchitectonics of reticular formation in the caiman (caiman latirostris). | | 1973 | 4806321 |
| heterogeneity and polymerization of hemoglobins of caiman latirostris (crocodylia: reptilia). | | 1976 | 939094 |
| an ultrastructural study on the endocrine pancreas of caiman latirostris, with special reference to pancreatic motilin cells. | pancreatic endocrine cells of caiman latirostris were investigated by electron microscopy using conventional and immunocytochemical methods. ultrastructurally, four types of endocrine cells were classified according to the morphology of their secretory granules. three types of endocrine cells were identified as either glucagon, insulin or somatostatin cells by the presence of such characteristic granules well established in mammals. the remaining endocrine cell type could not be classified by it ... | 1991 | 1683242 |
| comparative analysis of cranial suture complexity in the genus caiman (crocodylia, alligatoridae). | the variation in degrees of interdigitation (complexity) in cranial sutures among species of caiman in different skull regions was studied by fractal analysis. our findings show that there is a small species effect in the fractal dimension of cranial sutures, but most variation is accounted for by regional differentiation within the skull. there is also a significant interaction between species and cranial regions. the braincase sutures show higher fractal dimension than the facial skull sutures ... | 2000 | 11241970 |
| motilin-immunoreactive cells in the duodenum, pyloric stomach and pancreas of caimans (caiman latirostris and caiman crocodilus, alligatorinae): a further comparison using region-specific motilin antisera. | motilin-immunoreactive cells in the duodenum, pyloric stomach and pancreas of caiman latirostris and caiman crocodilus were investigated using region specific antisera for porcine and canine motilin molecules. motilin-immunoreactive cells were found in the duodenum, pyloric stomach and pancreas of both caiman species. these cells were primarily open-type endocrine ones in the epithelium of the duodenum and pyloric stomach. motilin-immunoreactive cells were observed in both the exocrine and endoc ... | 1991 | 1954044 |
| coccidian parasites (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from two species of caimans, caiman yacare daudin and caiman latirostris daudin (alligatoridae), from paraguay. | from october 1986 to january 1987, feces from 119 caiman yacare and 12 caiman latirostris were collected in paraguay and later examined for coccidian oocysts; 69 of 119 (58%) samples from c. yacare and 3 of 12 (25%) samples from c. latirostris contained coccidian oocysts. two eimerians infected c. yacare and both are described as new species. sporulated oocysts of eimeria paraguayensis n. sp. are ellipsoid, 34.0 x 23.6 (26-38 x 20-29) microns with sporocysts ovoid, 14.0 x 7.1 (10-19 x 6-10) micr ... | 1989 | 2723920 |
| regression equations between body and head measurements in the broad-snouted caiman (caiman latirostris). | in the present study, regression equations between body and head length measurements for the broad-snouted caiman (caiman latirostris) are presented. age and sex are discussed as sources of variation for allometric models. four body-length, fourteen head-length, and ten ratio variables were taken from wild and captive animals. with the exception of body mass, log-transformation did not improve the regression equations. besides helping to estimate body-size from head dimensions, the regression eq ... | 2000 | 11188873 |
| allometry of reproduction in broad-snouted caiman (caiman latirostris). | in the present study regression equations are established between broad-snouted caiman (caiman latirostris) captive reproductive females snout-vent length (svl) and body mass (bm) and the following clutch characteristics: egg mass, egg "length" (maximal diameter), egg "width" (minimal diameter), hatchling bm, hatchling svl, clutch size (number of eggs), clutch mass and relative clutch mass (clutch mass/female bm). female body-length presented a positive correlation with egg mass, egg length, egg ... | 2001 | 11706570 |
| growth of broad-nosed caiman, caiman latirostris (daudin, 1802) hatchlings, fed with diets of animal origin. | the study was carried out to evaluate the growth rate of broad-nosed caiman, caiman latirostris hatchlings, fed on four animal protein diets: (a) dead poultry from a poultry farm; (b) dead piglet from nursery and farrowing house in a swine farm; (c) whole tilapia (tilapia rendalli e oreochromis niloticus); and (d) a balanced mixture of a, b, and c sources. sixteen seven-month old caimans, average weight of 208 g and, 38 cm of total length (tl) were distributed in four treatments. four groups of ... | 2002 | 11706569 |
| an immunohistochemical study of the endocrine cells in the gastrointestinal mucosa of the caiman latirostris. | twelve endocrine cell types immunoreactive for either 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-ht), somatostatin, gastrin, motilin, neurotensin, bovine pancreatic polypeptide (bpp), avian pancreatic polypeptide (app), pancreatic glucagon, enteroglucagon, glicentin, secretin or cholecystokinin (cck) were found in gastrointestinal mucosa of caiman latirostris. moderate numbers of enteroglucagon-immunoreactive cells, a few 5-ht-, somatostatin- and motilin-immunoreactive cells and rare pancreatic glucagon-immunoreact ... | 1987 | 3662753 |