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da Silva, A.B.S.; de Sousa Cavalcane, M.M.A.; Santos, A.C.C.; Guerra, S.P.L.; de Oliveira LOpes, L.; de Oliveira Bezerra, D.; Vieira, A.A.R.; Conde Junior, A.M.
Anatomy and arterial vascularization of female genital system of margay (_Leopardus weidi_i, Schinz, 1821)
2016  Jornal Interdisciplinar de Biociencias (1): 9-12

We propose a descriptive study about female genital system and behavior of the arteries responsible for the blood supply to these organs in margay. We used one exemplary victim of poaching that come to death. The animal was stored in freezer. Defrost at room temperature, we proceeded with the solution injection Neoprene Latex '650' coloured in red for better identification of vessels before the adjacent structures. The specimen was fixed using an aqueous 10% formaldehyde solution with subsequent immersion in the same fixative solution. The female genital system of margay consists of a pair of ovaries, uterus with a pair of uterine horns, vagina and vulva. The arterial distribution of the female system have a common vessel to iliac artery which branches and leads to internal pudendal artery sends a branch along the pudendal nerve pathway, urogenital artery. This, we performed divided into two branches, cranial and caudal. The cranial branch irrigates laterally cervix and uterine horns and caudal branch, vagina and vulva. The ovarian arteries, peers, originate from abdominal aorta only vascularizes the ovaries. The female genital system and vascularization of the genitals organs of margay resembles of domestic carnivores including cats and some wild felines like the ocelot and find differences with the same description held in other domestic and wild species.

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