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Levofloxacin is a fl uoroquinolone antimicrobial used in human medicine and with a potential application in food-producing animals, if the toxicological and pharmacological studies support this. Previous studies have shown that other fluoroquinolones and/or its metabolites produce lipid peroxidation...
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias.
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | http://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=pveterinaria/invet&cl=CL1&d=HWA_3822 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/collect/pveterinaria/invet/index/assoc/HWA_3822.dir/3822.PDF |
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| Sumario: | Levofloxacin is a fl uoroquinolone antimicrobial used in human medicine and with a potential application in food-producing animals, if the toxicological and pharmacological studies support this. Previous studies have shown that other fluoroquinolones and/or its metabolites produce lipid peroxidation in animal tissues but toxicological evaluation of levofl oxacin communications are scarce. This work argues evaluate the possible lipid oxidation in broiler chickens and trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) tissues, after levofl oxacin administration, using the thiobarbituric acid reactive substances technique (TBARs).\nThe values, TBARs/g of tissue, showed statistically signifi cant differences in: trout muscle after a10mg/kg single administration of levofl oxacin 50.2±3.2 vs control 17.1±3.8 (p<0.05) at 72 h; in chicken after a single 5mg/kg levofl oxacin administration, the values were in muscle at 2 h, 6.2±1.2 vs control 3.7±1.3 (p<0.05) and in liver at 1h, 6.9±0.2 vs control 0.9±0.1 (p<0.05). This information which suggests oxidative effect induction in tissues should be deepened in future research. |
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