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Título: Stress cardiomyopathy in stranded cetaceans: a histological, histochemical and immunohistochemical study
Autores/as: Câmara, Nakita 
Sierra, Eva 
Fernández-Maldonado, Carolina
Espinosa de los Monteros, A. 
Arbelo, Manuel 
Fernández, Antonio 
Herráez, Pedro 
Clasificación UNESCO: Investigación
Palabras clave: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Cardiac Troponin
Capture Myopathy
Beluga Whales
Tako-Tsubo, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Publicación seriada: Veterinary Record 
Resumen: BACKGROUND: Free-living cetaceans are exposed to a wide variety of stressful situations, including live stranding and interaction with human beings (capture myopathy), vessel strikes, and fishing activities (bycatch), which affect their wellbeing and potentially lead to stress cardiomyopathy (SCMP). METHODS: Here, the authors aimed to characterise SCMP of stranded cetaceans as an injury resulting from extreme stress responses, based on pathological analyses (histological, histochemical and immunohistochemical). Specifically, the authors examined heart samples from 67 cetaceans found ashore (48 live strandings, seven dead from ship collision and 12 dead from bycatch) on the coast of Spain, more specifically in the Canary Islands from 2000 to 2016 and Andalusia from 2011 to 2014. RESULTS: The microscopic findings were characterised by vascular changes, acute or subacute cardiac degenerative necrotic lesions, interstitial myoglobin globules, and infiltration of inflammatory cells. Immunohistochemically, cardiac troponin I, cardiac troponin C and myoglobin were depleted, along with fibrinogen being expressed in the degenerated/necrotic cardiomyocytes. A perivascular pattern was also identified and described in the damaged cardiomyocytes. CONCLUSIONS: This study advances current knowledge about the pathologies of cetaceans and their implications on conserving this group of animals by reducing mortality and enhancing their treatment and subsequent rehabilitation to the marine environment.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/59990
ISSN: 0042-4900
DOI: 10.1136/vr.105562
Fuente: The Veterinary record [ISSN 0042-4900], v. 185 (22), p. 694
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