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- Title
Trends of Species-wise and Organ-wise change in Catalase Activity in Tilapia, Grey Mullet and Spotted Scat from Cochin Backwaters.
- Authors
K. R., Asharaj; M. L., Joseph; K. J., Benny
- Abstract
Reactive oxygen species generation and enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant profiling has been emerged as an important area of research due to its correlation with environmental stress where the organism inhabit and as a way to recover from ROS induced damages. Here an attempt has been done to investigate the Catalase activity in four organs viz., gills, liver, kidney, muscle in three species of fish viz., Tialpia (Oreochromis mossambicus), Grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) and Spotted scat (Scatophagus argus) collected from a traditional brackish water farm in Kochi to understand the species-wise and organ-wise alterations in catalase activity in fish. The results showed a decreasing trend in enzyme activity as liver > gills > Kidney > muscle in all the species of fish selected. Hepatic catalase and Branchial catalase showed a similar decreasing trend in species- wise variation like S. argus > O. mossambicus > M. cephalus but Renal and Muscular catalase showed a different trend of species-wise variation as M. cephalus > S. argus > O. mossambicus.
- Subjects
CATALASE; TILAPIA; GRAY mullets; SCATOPHAGUS argus; REACTIVE oxygen species
- Publication
International Journal of Life Sciences & Technology, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0974-5335
- Publication type
Article