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cje ›› 2011, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (11): 2516-2522.

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Effects of dissolved copper in water body on serum biochemical indices of juvenile Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis).

ZHANG Long-zhen1,2**, YAO Zhi-feng1,2, ZHUANG Ping1, HUANG Xiao-rong1, ZHAO Feng1, WANG Yu1,3   

  1. 1Key and Open Laboratory of Marine and Estuary Fisheries Resource and Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai 200090, China;2College of Fisheries and Life, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China;3College of Aqua-life Science and Technology, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China
  • Online:2011-11-08 Published:2011-11-08

Abstract: Detections were made on the serum biochemical indices and ion concentrations of juvenile Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) after exposed to the water body added with different concentration Cu2+ for 30 and 60 days, aimed to understand the toxic effect of Cu2+ on the juveniles. With the increasing concentration of Cu2+in water body, the concentrations of glucose (Glu), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), urea, total cholesterol (TC), and creatinine (CREA) in the serum increased, while that of triglycerides (TG) decreased.The Cu2+ had little effects on the concentrations of total protein (TP), aspartate aminotransferase (AST),alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and there were no significant differences in the test biochemical indices except ALP between the treatment low concentration Cu2+ and the control. At medium (0.89 μg·L-1) and high (2.00 μg·L-1) concentrations of Cu2+, the concentrations of GLU, ALP, urea, TC, CREA, and TG were significantly higher than those of the control (P<0.05). The  pH and Na+, Cl-, and P concentrations decreased significantly with increasing concentration of Cu2+ while the Ca2+ and Mg2+ concentrations were in adverse, and the  K+ concentration was less affected. The minimum observable and the maximum unobservable effect concentrations of Cu2+  were 0.89 and 0.40 μg·L-1, respectively. Among the test indices, ALP was most affected by Cu2+, and increased significantly with increasing time of Cu2+ exposure, being able to be the sensitive index of juvenile Chinese sturgeon under water body Cu2+ pollution.

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