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Khoshnood Z, Khodabandeh S, Shahryari Moghaddam M, Mosafer Khoorjestan S. Histopathological and Pathomorphological Effects of Mercuric Chloride on the Gills of Persian Sturgeon, Acipenser persicus, Fry. ECOPERSIA 2011; 0 (1) :23-32
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1- Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran, Iran., Noor
2- Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran, Iran.
3- Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran, Iran., Zaboul
4- Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran, Iran., Tehran
Abstract:   (14498 Views)
Histopathological and pathomorphological effects of 15 ppb mercuric chloride on Persian sturgeon, Acipenser persicus, were investigated using histological and electron microscopy observations. Light microscopy showed that the gill epithelial hypertrophy, wrinkling and hyperplasia in lamellar epithelia and lamellae fusion occurred after 48 h of exposure. Gill epithelia also showed occasional necrosis, which had almost been completed and blood emerged from the capillaries. However, occasional necrosis in some regions of the filament, both with blood emerging and with no bleeding, was observed by using electron microscopy. These injuries were well observed in inter-lamellar regions of the filament and also wrinkling of the lamellar epithelium. Ultrastructural observations showed some cellular disorders in gill epithelium of the Persian sturgeon, A. persicus, fry. In addition, increase in apical vesicles of the chloride cells and necrosis in apical surfaces of some chloride cells, hypertrophy and necrosis of the chloride cells’ mitochondrion and endoplasmic reticulum also were some of the other cellular disorders observed through transmission electron microscopy. In conclusion, the gills of A. persicus fry were sensitive to low concentrations of inorganic mercury (HgCl2).
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Subject: Faculty of Agriculture
Received: 2010/09/14 | Accepted: 2010/11/14 | Published: 2011/02/20
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