Plantas que causam abortos em ruminantes no Brasil.

Abstract

The present work was objective perform a review of poisonous plants that cause abortion in ruminants in the Brazil. The plants mentioned here are: Aspidosperma pyrifolium that has been identified as cause of abortion and embryonic losses in goats, and mentioned by farmers as cause of abortion in sheep and cattle; Ateleia glazioviana and Tetrapterys spp. (Tetrapterys acutifolia and Tetrapterys multiglandulosa) that cause abortions and perinatal mortality in cattle and experimentally also in sheep and goats, besides cause a nervous way, and a chronic cardiomyopathy; Stryphnodendron spp. (Stryphnodendron coriaceum, Stryphnodendron obovatum) and Enterolobium spp. (Enterolobium contorttisiliquum, Enterolobium gummiferum and Enterolobium timbouva) that cause abortion and also digestive signs and photosensitization in cattle, besides of a nervous way in the experimental poisoning of goats by S. coriaceum. In this work are also mentioned some plants suspected of being abortive, including Buchenavia tomentosa, Copernicia prunifera, Dimorphandra mollis, Luffa operculata, Myroxylon peruiferum, Passiflora spp., Physalis spp., Senna obtusifolia e Stemodia maritima.