Prevalence of Gastritis and Enteritis in Red-Eared Turtles Diagnosed by Radiology

Red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans)

Housing density and growth in juvenile red-eared turtles.

Growth rates in juvenile turtles relate strongly to their health and welfare, both in the wild and in captivity. Newly hatched turtles in the wild are subject to such high levels of predation that, in some cases, as few as I % survive their first year of life. Juvenile turtles in captivity succumb more quickly to the effects of poor housing conditions and poor diets than do older adults. In bot...

Acute Gastritis and Enteritis

2 Acute Duodenitis and Enteritis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 General Characteristics (Macari and Balthazar 2001; Thoeni and Cello 2006; D’Almeida et al. 2008; Macari et al. 2007) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Acute Infectious Conditions of the Duodenum and Small Intestine (Mazzie et al. 2007) . . . . . . . 2.3 Vascular Acute Inflammatory Conditions of the Duodenum and Small ...

Epigenetic Control of Gonadal Aromatase (cyp19a1) in Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination of Red-Eared Slider Turtles

In the red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta), a species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), the expression of the aromatase gene during gonad development is strictly limited to the female-producing temperature. The underlying mechanism remains unknown. In this study, we identified the upstream 5'-flanking region of the aromatase gene, gonad-specific promoter, and the tempe...

Corticosterone secretion in response to capture and handling in free-living red-eared slider turtles.

The corticosterone response to capture and handling was measured in free-living red-eared slider turtles, Trachemys scripta elegans. To determine the ability of this species to exhibit this endocrine response, slider turtles were bled at the time of removal from hoop nets and again at 30 and 60 min following capture to create plasma profiles of acute corticosterone secretion from individuals. P...

Mitochondrial responses to prolonged anoxia in brain of red-eared slider turtles.

Mitochondria are central to aerobic energy production and play a key role in neuronal signalling. During anoxia, however, the mitochondria of most vertebrates initiate deleterious cell death cascades. Nonetheless, a handful of vertebrate species, including some freshwater turtles, are remarkably tolerant of low oxygen environments and survive months of anoxia without apparent damage to brain ti...