Abstract
Cadmium from industrial effluents pollutes sea and river water and hence may effect the fish population therein. The present investigation shows that resistivity is greater in case of air-breathing fishes as compared to non air-breathing fishes with regards to their duration of survival and growth when exposed to a cadmium containing environment. Under sub-acute levels of cadmium exposure, they respond differently so far as the activities of their liver, gill and intestinal lysosomal enzymes are concerned. Though both species show a definite stress condition on cadmium exposure, the two anatomically different fishes respond differently towards carbohydrate metabolism as observed from liver and muscle glycogen content, liver microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase activity and serum glucose level.
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Das, K.K., Banerjee, S.K. Cadmium toxicity in fishes. Hydrobiologia 75, 117–121 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00007424
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