Lead-induced biochemical changes in freshwater fish Oreochromis mossambicus

Journal Article · Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01701763· OSTI ID:7104515

Ruparelia, S G; Verma, Y; Mehta, N S; Salyed, S R ^[1]

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1. National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad (India)

Lead, a non-essential and non-beneficial element has considerably added the problem of health hazard to human and experimental mammals. It has also received much attention over the past few years as potentially important aquatic pollutant. Fishes are of great nutritional significance and their intoxication by lead causes retardation of growth and deterioration in the nutritional value. Very little attention has been paid to biochemical changes which develop more quickly in response to toxicants than any apparent morphological changes. Therefore, the present investigation was undertaken to evaluate the effect of lead on plasma chemistry of freshwater fish Oreochromis mossambicus. This fish was selected because of its wide availability, edibility in India and its suitability as a model fish for toxicity testing. The variables such as glucose, cholesterol and protein representing carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolism were studied.

• OSTI ID: 7104515
• Journal Information: Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; (USA), Vol. 43:2; ISSN 0007-4861
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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