Journal
AQUACULTURE RESEARCH
Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 596-603Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2011.03063.x
Keywords
methaemoglobin; metabolism; fish; functional anaemia; LDH; GDH
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- FAPESP
- CNPq
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Nitrite is usually found in aquatic environments where nitrification process occurs. This ion can cause several injuries to aquatic species, particularly fish. Nitrite reacts with haemoglobin yielding the non-functional methaemoglobin, which leads to many physiological consequences such as functional anaemia and supposed hypoxia. Metabolism of the freshwater teleost matrinxA, Brycon amazonicus, exposed to environmental 0.6mgL1 of nitrite N-NO2 for 96h was studied, and the fermentative/oxidative preference was gauged. Concentrations of glycogen, glucose, lactate, pyruvate and ammonia, plus the activities of lactate, glutamate and malate dehydrogenase were assayed. The exposure resulted in a metabolic profile that allowed inferring the continuity of oxidative metabolism. Catabolism of amino acids prevailed or was apparently exacerbated by inferred branchial injury and consequent impairment of nitrogen excretion. Moreover, the studied enzymes glutamate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase and malate dehydrogenase from brain and heart were little affected by nitrite. The expected fermentative metabolism due to the high methaemoglobin formation was not observed.
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