The influence of starvation and Eurytrema coelomaticum infection on the nitrogenous products of degradation in the hemolymph of Bradybaena similaris

The urea and uric acid contents in the hemolymph of Bradybaena similaris we re analyzed under starvation and Eurytrema coelomaticum infection during 30 days. The urea and uric acid contents in the uninfected and fed snails wer e 15.090 mg/dl and 9.399 mg/dl, respectively, being the urea/uric acid rati o 1.6 The urea content in starved snails increased to a maximum of 363.237 mg/dl at 15 days, and the uric acid varied to a maximum of 11.470 mg/dl. Th e urea content ill infected snails was reduced to a minimum of 2.123 mg/dl at 30 days of infection and the uric acid increased significatively at 25 d ays post exposure, being 13.820 mg/dl. A significative relation was not obs erved between the time of starvation and rime of E. coelomaticum infection and the uric acid content in the hemolymph of B. similaris.