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Curcuma longa as additive in the diet for Astyanax aff. bimaculatus

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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of turmeric (Curcuma longa) as additive in the diet for Astyanax aff. bimaculatus. Fish (0.83 ± 0.04 g) were fed, for 60 days, with six diets containing 0.0, 20.0, 40.0, 60.0, 80.0, and 100.0 g turmeric kg−1 feed. There was an increasing linear effect of turmeric on the thickness of the muscular layer, and height and width of the folds of the intestine. In the liver, a quadratic effect was observed of turmeric on the percentage of hepatocyte cytoplasm and a decreasing linear effect on the percentage of sinusoid capillaries. A quadratic effect was also observed of turmeric on the liver glycogen. There was no effect of turmeric on the antioxidant activity in the liver, carcass composition or productive performance of the fish. Thus, we concluded that Curcuma longa has trophic effects on the epithelium and the muscular layer of the intestine of A. aff. bimaculatus. Additionally, low levels of Curcuma longa cause increased deposition of liver glycogen and high levels cause reduction.

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The authors thank the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (FAPEMIG), for funding this project and for granting the scholarship for the first author. And to thank the Guabi Nutrição Animal, Brazil, for its support in performing these experiments successfully. The authors are also very grateful to Mariella Freitas coordinator of the Cell Culture and Ecophysiology Laboratory of Department of Animal Biology—UFV, for providing the laboratory for the oxidadive stress and glycogen analysis, and to Edenio Detmann coordinator of the Nutrition Monogastric Laboratory of Department of Animal Husbandry—UFV, for the analysis of chemical composition of carcass and diets.

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    Pollyanna de Moraes França Ferreira, Juliana Rodrigues Gomes, Jerusa Maria de Oliveira & Juliana Silva Rocha

  2. Department of Animal Biology, Federal University of Viçosa – UFV, Av. PH Rolfs s / n, Viçosa, MG, CEP 36570-000, Brazil

    Maria Tatiana Soares Martins, Débora Werneck Caldas, Ana Lucia Salaro & Jener Alexandre Sampaio Zuanon

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de Moraes França Ferreira, P., Martins, M.T.S., Caldas, D.W. et al. Curcuma longa as additive in the diet for Astyanax aff. bimaculatus . Fish Physiol Biochem 43, 691–702 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-016-0325-0

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