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Doppler flow probes were fitted around the ventral aorta of rainbow trout, which were exposed to combinations of pH and aluminum (pH 5.1–6.2, Al 0–80 g l–1) for 60 h. Fish accumulated Al at the gill and exhibited decreased blood Na+, Cl–, and Ca2+ concentrations, and increased K+, hematocrit, hemoglobin, glucose, and lactate, indicating increasing ionoregulatory disturbance with increasing Al concentration. Fish exposed to ambient water (6.2) or low-pH (5.3) water without Al exhibited slight reductions in heart rates, as well as increased stroke volume, resulting in little variation in cardiac output. In the presence of Al (20 to 40 g l–1) at low pH (5.1–5.3), fish increased their heart rate slightly and generally maintained their stroke volume, resulting in increased cardiac output in the first two days of exposure. At the highest Al concentration (80 g l–1, pH 5.1), tachycardia was observed, concomitant with a decrease in stroke volume. The ionoregulatory imbalance and resulting increased blood viscosity explain these increases in heart rate rather than stroke volume in fish exposed to high concentrations of Al.  相似文献   

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In this study, the toxic effects on the embryos and larvae of the common carp were used as a model to investigate the synthetic pyrethroid pesticide, cypermethrin, which contaminates aquatic ecosystems. Data obtained from the cypermethrin acute toxicity tests were evaluated using the Probit Analysis Statistical Method. The control and eight test experiments were repeated five times. The number of dead embryos significantly increased in response to cypermethrin concentrations 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 2, 4 and 8 μg l−1 (p<0.05 for each case). The 48 h LC50 value (with 95% confidence limits) of cypermethrin for common carp embryos was estimated at 0.909 (0.256–5.074) μg l−1. Dose–response decreases in hatching success were recorded as 87.4, 85.0, 80.2, 71.4, 56.3, 48.6, 38.8 and 23.5%, respectively. The lowest concentration of cypermethrin (0.0001 μg l−1) produced a significant increase in the number of dead larvae compared to the control group (p<0.05). The number of dead larvae significantly increased with increasing cypermethrin concentrations exposed for 1–96 h (p<0.05). The highest concentration (8 μg l−1) showed the highest larvae mortality. The 96 h LC50 value (with 95% confidence limits) of cypermethrin for common carp larvae was estimated at 0.809 (0.530–1.308) μg l−1. The results of the study suggest that low levels of cypermethrin in the aquatic environment may have a significant effect on the reproduction and development of carp.  相似文献   

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The maximum power output of isolated perfused ventricles of the hafish (Eptatretus cirrhatus) averaged 0.367±0.031 mW g–1 (n=9), considerably high than estimates for the heart of the Atlantic hagfish (Myxine glutinosa). Maximal minute volumes averaged 21.55±1.28 ml min–1kg–1, with a mean stroke volume of 0.71±0.14 ml kg–1 body weight, values which are similar to those reported for many teleost and elasmobranch hearts.Ventricular output showed the characteristic dependence upon atrial filling pressure up to an optimum filling pressure ofc. 4 mm Hg. At output pressures exceeding 14 mm Hg the stroke volume and power output fell sharply. At these afterloads, the ventral aorta remained distended following semilunar valve closure and so the volume of fluid ejected on ventricular systole was reduced. There was little change in the frequency of the heart as either input or output pressures were varied.  相似文献   

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Sub-lethal cardiac responses of brown trout alevins (Salmo trutta L.) were determined in response to aqueous extracts of the cyanobacterium Microcystis strains PCC 7813 (microcystins detectable by HPLC) and CYA 43 (no microcystins detectable by HPLC) and to the purified cyanobacterial hepatotoxin, microcystin-LR (MC-LR) at concentrations of 5, 50 and 500 g microcystin-LR equivalents l–1. Responses were determined using a flow chamber and video camera attached to a low power microscope. Heart rate in brown trout alevins was acutely sensitive to cyanobacterial extracts and significant increases were observed within 15–60 sec of exposure to aqueous extracts, although no change was observed on exposure to purified MC-LR. Stroke volume increased in all treatments at 50 and 500 g MC-LR equivalents l–1, which may, at least in part, have been due to vasodilation of the yolk-sac blood vessels. Cardiac output increased significantly at all three concentrations of cyanobacterial cell extracts but not at the lowest concentration of MC-LR, although the rate increased at levels at/or above 50 g l–1. Increased heart rate, stroke volume and cardiac output occurred at environmentally relevant microcystin concentrations of Microcystis PCC 7813 and CYA 43 aqueous extracts.  相似文献   

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Soft water acclimated (Ca2+ 0.02 mM; Na+ 0.03 mM; K+ 0.01 mM; pH 7.0), cannulated brown trout (Salmo trutta) were exposed to various pH and aluminium (Al) regimes (pH 7.0, pH 5.0, pH 5.0 plus Al: 50, 25, and 12.5 g l–1) for up to 5 days in order to determine (i) the sublethal concentration of Al at pH 5.0 for this species (ii) their ionoregulatory and respiratory status. No mortality or physiological disturbances were evident at pH 7.0 or pH 5.0. All trout died within 48 h at pH 5.0 in the presence of Al at 50 g l–1 and 67% died over the 5 day period at pH 5.0 in the presence of Al at 25 g l–1. Fish at these lethal Al concentrations showed significant decreases in arterial blood oxygen content (CaO2) but no changes in plasma osmolarity or the concentrations of plasma Na+, K+ and Cl–. Physiological disturbance was more marked at the 50 g l–1 Al concentration. The surviving fish at 25 g l–1 showed few signs of physiological recovery while continually exposed to this regime. No fish died during the exposure to water of pH 5.0 containing 12.5 g l–1 Al, but physiological disturbance was still apparent. These sublethally-stressed trout showed a transient decline in the plasma concentrations of Na+ and Cl–1. Although CaO2 decreased, recovery was evident. The data suggest that in the brown trout, environmental Al concentration is as important as pH and calcium concentration in determining the physiological status of the fish.  相似文献   

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Abnormal compressions and fusions of vertebral bodies are frequently observed in reared rainbow trout and could result from chronic and unbearable muscle pressures acting on the axial skeleton during intensive growth. Sustained swimming at moderate speeds was shown to induce many positive effects on growth and swimming performances in salmonids, but yet little is known about its effects on vertebral remodeling processes and related hormonal regulation. Rainbow trout were subjected to three different swimming speeds (0, 1.0 and 1.5 body length (BL) s− 1), starting one month after they were first fed (65 mm) and ending when they reached 260 mm in size (market-size of 275 g). At the end of the experiment, 20 trout were sampled in each lot (N = 60) and blood samples were taken. Vertebrae abnormalities were assessed by radiological examinations. Vertebrae from the middle axial region (V32–38) were selected to evaluate bone mineralization (BM) and total bone area (Tt-B.Ar.) on radiographed transverse sections (125 ± 10 μm). Assays were performed to evaluate mineral homeostasis (calcemia and phosphatemia), bone cell activities (alkaline phosphatase, ALP, and tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, TRAP) and bone regulating hormones (calcitonin, CT and thyroid hormones, THs). Sustained exercise reduced the appearance of fused vertebrae, enhanced vertebral BM and decreased vertebral Tt-B.Ar., while it increased circulating CT and TH levels. No variations were observed on mineral homeostasis and bone cell activities. Increasing the swimming speed up to 1.5 BL s− 1 had positive effects on the vertebral skeleton, and therefore, seems to be a suitable approach to prevent aggravation of vertebral abnormalities in juvenile trout. The changes observed in vertebral features are interpreted as a compromise between the necessity to mobilize vertebral mineral ions in response to various physiological demands and to maintain vertebral strength against mechanical constraints.  相似文献   

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Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) eggs and alevins were exposed for up to 4 weeks to the nitricoxide (NO) donor isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) at concentrations up to 100 mol l–1. Hatching success was over 95%, but increasing concentrations of ISDN significantly delayed hatching, without significant affects on survival. Alevins exposed to ISDN concentrations of 50 or 100 mol l–1 showed significant cardiovascular and developmental changes compared to unexposed alevins. These included lowered heart rate and ventilation rate, doubling of cardiac output, dilation of the vitelline vein and increased in alevin weight. The results indicate a vasodilatory role of NO in trout alevins, and their cardiovascular responses to NO, with reference to the role of the vitelline vein, are discussed.  相似文献   

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The California horn shark (Heterodontus francisci), instrumented with a pericardial catheter and a ventral-aortic flow probe, was studied to determine the effect of complete pericardial chamber evacuation on the time course for restitution of pericardial fluid-volume and pressure, and the effects of both fluid removal and its restitution on cardiac output. Prior to evacuation, pericardial pressure was –0.02±0.02 kPa, and cardiac output was 18±2 ml min–1 kg–1. Evacuation reduced pericardial pressure to –0.73±0.14 kPa, and increased cardiac output to 23±4 ml min–1 kg–1. The time course for restoration of post-evacuation pressure is described by a non-linear asymptotic function. A large percentage of the pericardial pressure and volume recovery occurred within the first hour, while, complete restoration of pre-withdrawal conditions required about 11 h. Pericardial pressure-volume relationships, determined by incremental infusion of small volumes of elasmobranch saline into the pericardium, confirm previous findings that the operating pericardial pressure in the horn shark is at or near ambient pressure and that both pericardial fluid volume and cardiac stroke volume influence horn shark pericardial pressure.  相似文献   

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The present case study, deals with a recently built aquaculture facility using 80–120 L s−1 spring water for trout production. The farm consists of six raceways, discharging in a common outflow channel, leading to a drum filter equipped with 80 μm gauze. About 120 L s−1 of the microscreen effluent is pumped back in the inflow channel of the six raceways. The remaining effluent is oxygenated with pure oxygen in gravity oxygenation units and led to two U-shaped raceways. The farm effluent is finally filtered by a drum filter with 63 μm mesh size. The microscreen backwash sludge is treated in a cone settler, where the sediments are extracted for agricultural manure application. The sedimentation supernatant is further led in a sub surface flow (SSF) constructed wetland prior to discharge.Due to the advanced effluent treatment within the farm, the total farm effect on the receiving effluent is kept to a minimum. The nutrient increase produced by the farm is only 0.03 mg L−1 total phosphorous (TP), 1.09 mg L−1 biological oxygen demand (BOD5) and, 0.57 mg L−1 total suspended solids (TSS) in the brook. Especially the incorporation of an intermediate microscreen prior to water recirculation, prevents leaching of dissolved nutrients from particulate matter, as large particles are effectively and as fast as possible removed from the water flow.At the pumping station, needed for water recirculation, the particle size distribution (PSD) was monitored with the previous microscreen in use and by-passed. When the screen was by-passed a significant crushing effect on PSD through pumping action was found. Through the removal of large particles, the crushing effect of the pumping station on the particles is prevented, as revealed by particle size distribution (PSD) measurement. Thus, leaching of dissolved nutrients is prevented twice.In consequence, the farm configuration can be recommended as an effective possibility for intensive trout production at sites with a small freshwater source and stringent effluent thresholds, even with the unexpected low treatment efficiencies measured for the microscreens. Both drum filters showed relative low treatment efficiencies of 33–53% for total suspended solids, respectively, while an efficiency of 70% should be expected from the measured PSD. With this impact, the farm still emitted a low nutrient amount, especially due to the highly effective offline microscreen backwash sludge treatment, where the SSF wetland efficiently reduced dissolved and particulate nutrients as nitrite (NO2-N), nitrate (NO3-N) and TSS. Thus this SSF wetland application might be suitable as a denitrification step in a closed recirculating trout farm.  相似文献   

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Juvenile rainbow trout (2–5 g) were chronically exposed (for 22 days) to acidified softwater (Ca2+ = 25 Eq/l, pH 5.2) in the presence or absence sublethal Al (30 g/l). Al-exposed fish (5.2/Al group) suffered 20% whole body Na+ and Cl– losses and a 30% reduction in the maximum sustainable swimming speed (Ucrit) over the initial 7 days. These disturbances were approximately 2 fold greater than those observed in the fish exposed to low pH alone (5.2/0 group). However, whole body ion levels were completely restored in the 5.2/Al fish by day 22, whereas they merely stabilized at a new reduced level in the 5.2/0 group. Increased resistance to acutely lethal Al (200 g/l at pH 5.2) was observed from day 17 onwards in the 5.2/Al fish. Despite this acclimation and recovery of whole body ions, Ucrit remained significantly lower than in the 5.2/0 group throughout. Growth on a restricted diet of 1% body wt. /day was normal in the 5.2/0 group compared with controls maintained in pH 6.5 softwater, whereas 5.2/Al fish suffered a 50% reduction in growth rate on the same diet. The 5.2/Al fish accumulated large amounts of Al on the gills, reaching an initial peak after 4 days, followed by a decline at 7 days, and a secondary rise thereafter. Therefore acclimation and recovery of whole body ionic status was not associated with a reduction in the gill Al burden. Some of the metabolic costs of acclimation to Al, namely a continued impairment of swimming speed and growth, are discussed in light of the physiological and structural changes reported to occur at the gills.  相似文献   

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Similar to gas secretion into the swimbladder, some teleosts also exhibit ocular gas secretion to supply their thick and avascular retina with oxygen. The process in the eye, however, is complicated by the fact that the retina is supplied with arterial blood only indirectly through the pseudobranch, a reduced gill arch of still unknown function. Approaches for closer analysis of the physiological implications of this serial blood supply arrangement and the associated process of O2 release include complete unilateral vascular isolation of eye and/or pseudobranch while maintaining normal blood flow characteristics for undisturbed operation of the counter-current rete mirabile.Blood flow velocity in the afferent pseudobranchial artery (aPA; essentially equal to ophthalmic artery flow) of rainbow trout was measured by application of ultrasonic Doppler techniques. Accurate determination of flow rate in the untouched vessel was facilitated by mounting the Doppler crystal with a custom-made holder on the bone of the jaw and raw signal analysis by Fast Fourier Transformation for improved signal/noise ratio. Normal unilateral aPA blood flow was 746 l min–1 kg–1 body weight, (1.6% of cardiac output), the tissue-weight-specific blood flow was 3.6 ml min–1 g–1 for pseudobranch and 2.3 ml min–1 g–1 for the retina. Only about 28% of the oxygen potentially available with maximal activation of the Root effect is actually consumed in pseudobranch and retina. This generous supply of blood and the implicit safety margin may serve minimization of pH disturbances of retinal tissues, but may also come suitable during unilateral occlusion of supplying arteries for continued oxygen supply to the retinae. During contralateral occlusion, flow through the ipsilateral aPA increased to 136%. According to the normally low O2 extraction, a minimal flow of 36% through bilateral anastomosis and contralateral ophthalmic artery may maintain complete contralateral oxygen supply.  相似文献   

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Apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) of carbohydrate, protein and lipid were investigated in Penaeus vannamei (18–25 g) with diets containing eight starches of various origin. Test ingredients, included at a level of 35% of diet, were native (NC) or gelatinized (GC) corn starch, waxy corn starch, either native (XC) or gelatinized (GX), high amylose corn starch (AC), potato starch, either native (NP) or gelatinized (GP), and native wheat starch (NW). Experimental diets differed only in the type of starch. Chromic oxide was included as a marker. On each starch sample, water solubility index (WSI) was determined and in vitro digestibility assays were carried out with shrimp digestive gland homogenates in order to evaluate correlations between criteria. In vitro digestibility was estimated as the initial rate of hydrolysis (IRH) in micrograms of reducing units per minute per microgram of substrate in glucose equivalents. Starch ADC ranged from 63.1 (AC) to 95.8% (GX), WSI ranged from 0.06 (NP) to 0.69% (XC) for native starch and from 55 (GX) to 85% (GP) for gelatinized starch, while IRH was between 17 (AC) and 89.10−4 μg min−1 μg−1 (GC). Significant differences (P < 0.05) appeared within each of the parameters depending on the source of dietary starch; in vitro tests were significantly (P < 0.05) correlated with each other as was IRH with starch ADC (y = 8.0 In(104x) + 59.0; R2 = 0.81; x representing IRH). IRH appeared to be more suitable than WSI to predict in vivo digestibility for starch. Protein and lipid ADC which ranged from 94.1 to 97.8% and from 76.6 to 84.8%, respectively, were also significantly affected, thus indicating some associative effects.  相似文献   

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In this study, the pharmacokinetic profile of enrofloxacin (EF) and its major metabolite, ciprofloxacin (CF), were investigated in brown trout (Salmo trutta fario) (n = 150) after intravenous (i.v.) and oral (p.o.) administrations of a single dose of 10 mg kg− 1 body weight (b.w.) at 10 °C. The plasma concentrations of the drugs were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC-UV) from 0.08 to 120 h. Pharmacokinetic parameters were described by the two-compartment open model for intravenous and oral administrations, respectively. After intravenous administration, the elimination half-life (t1/2β), apparent volume of distribution at steady-state (Vss) and total body clearance (Cltot) of enrofloxacin were 19.14 ± 1.51 h, 3.40 ± 0.18 L kg− 1 and 0.14 ± 0.01 L kg h− 1, respectively. After oral administration, the maximum plasma concentration (Cmax), time of maximum concentration (tmax) and bioavailability (F%) were 2.30 ± 0.08 µg mL− 1, 8 h and 78 ± 4%, respectively. Ciprofloxacin was not detected in the present study. The elimination half-life for enrofloxacin following oral administration was longer than values calculated for other animals. After oral administration, the mean plasma concentration was well above the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs)—that is, > 0.5 µg mL− 1 at 36 h—for most gram-negative fish pathogens. It is possible and practical to obtain therapeutic blood concentrations of enrofloxacin in brown trout (S. trutta fario) using oral administration of 10 mg kg− 1 body weight; therefore, it may be effective in the therapy for brown trout diseases.  相似文献   

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Immunolocalization by using rabbit polyclonal antibody against APGWamide demonstrated that there was APGWamide immunoreactivity (APGW-ir) in the varicosed nerve fibers in the capsule, connective tissue and trabeculae of the testis whereas there was no APGW-ir in the ovary of sexually mature broodstocks of Haliotis asinina. In vivo bioassay, by injecting APGWamide into foot muscle of mature males and females (age over 24 months), showed that most males (87.50%) injected with 200 μl of 10− 3 M APGWamide (170 μg APGWamide/animal) could be induced to spermiate whereas fewer males (43.75%) injected with 200 μl of 10− 6 M APGWamide (0.17 μg APGWamide/animal) could spermiate. Following injection with 10− 3 M, 53% of males spawned within 3 to 4 h, while the remaining males spawned within 2 to 3 h. The former tended to release more sperm at the range of 1.04 to 2 × 109, and the latter at the range 3.62 × 107 to 2.07 × 108 cells, respectively, and that the sperm of the former group appeared to be more motile. Following the injection of 10− 6 M, all inducible males spawned within 2–3 h, and 43% of spawned males have sperm around 2 × 109, while 57% have fewer sperm number ranging from 2.75 × 107 to 9.94 × 108 cells. In contrast to males, none of the mature females with ripen ovary could be induced to ovulate. These data suggest that APGWamide is an important signaling molecule that plays a role in the male reproductive process that could be used to induce spermiation.  相似文献   

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Salmon production cages at sites with a pronounced thermal stratification give individual fish an opportunity to choose their thermal environment. The behavioural responses of individual salmon to such stratification, however, are poorly documented. Information about spatial distributions and temperature experience of individual Atlantic salmon (initial weight 1.5 kg) was gathered over a period of 4 months (mid-August to early-December) using data storage tags. Fish were stocked at normal or high densities in triplicate 2000 m3 production cages at 5.6–14.5 (ND) or 15.7–32.1 (HD) kg m− 3, and valid data were collected for 12 ND and 11 HD salmon. There were large inter- and intra-individual variations in swimming depth, with indications that the salmon performed behavioural thermoregulation in an attempt to maintain body temperature within the range of 8–20 °C. Stocking density influenced the average swimming depth and body temperature, indicating competition for preferred thermal space in periods of unfavourably high temperature (towards 20 °C) in large parts of the cage volume. Analysis of temporal behavioural patterns demonstrated a higher variability during day than night and that 60 to 70% of the individuals displayed cyclic diel patterns in either swimming depth or body temperature in at least one out of three sub-periods. The results are discussed in relation to bio-energetic and thermal stress theory and possible consequences for growth variation in salmon cages. Generally, this study suggests that individual swimming depth and body temperature is in part a response to available temperature interacting with stocking density and time of day, while some individual variation cannot be ascribed to the measured variables.  相似文献   

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Rainbow trout acclimated to soft water were submitted to an incremental velocity trial, and exhibited a 14% decrease in critical swimming speed (U crit ∼ 1.37 ± 0.055 vs. 1.54 ± 0.044 m s−1) compared to fish kept in hard water. After a standardized swimming protocol, soft-water-acclimated fish had higher blood lactate concentrations (6.5 ± 0.66 and 6.0 ± 0.64 mmol L−1 (soft water) vs. 5.0 ± 0.46 and 3.9 ± 0.32 mmol L−1 (hard water)), revealing a greater use of anaerobic metabolism for the same exercise. Cardiovascular parameters were investigated while fish were swimming at increasing water velocities, revealing that soft-water-acclimated fish had lower increases in heart rate (105% vs. 118% of pre-exercise values), due to higher heart rates observed during acclimation and during the first 10 min of the swimming trial. This was also reflected by the plateau in heart rate and stroke volume observed during the swimming protocol, which can be attributed to increased cardiovascular function in response to soft-water acclimation. These results are in accord with previously reported increases in blood-to-water diffusion distance, due to proliferation of chloride cells at the gills in response to soft-water conditions, and underscore the costs and limitations of soft-water acclimation. R. C. Playle—Deceased.  相似文献   

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Experiments were carried out in situ and in vivo to investigate the relationship between natriuretic peptides (NPs) and humoral catecholamine secretion in the American eel (Anguilla rostrata), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias). In situ perfusion of the chromaffin tissue of A. rostrata with homologous atrial NP (ANP; 10–9 mol l–1) or ventricular NP (VNP; 10–9 mol l–1), or O. mykiss with either rat ANP (10–9 mol l–1), eel VNP (10–9 mol l–1), or trout VNP (10–9 mol l–1), did not significantly affect basal or carbachol-elicited (10–5 mol kg–1) catecholamine release. Bolus injections of homologous ANP (10–9 mol kg–1) or VNP (10–9 mol kg–1) in A. rostrata in vivo elicited a rapid and prolonged reduction in arterial blood pressure and an increase in heart rate (fH); circulating plasma catecholamine levels were unaffected. In O. mykiss, bolus injections of rat ANP (10–9 mol kg–1) or trout VNP (10–9 mol kg–1) elicited a significant bi-phasic pressor- depressor response and a marked increase in fH. Neither the acute pressor or the longer-term depressor effects of NPs in O. mykiss were associated with any change in circulating plasma catecholamine levels. In S. acanthias, bolus injections of homologous C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP; 10–9 mol kg–1) elicited a bi-phasic pressor-depressor response, an increase in systemic resistance, a decrease in cardiac output and stroke volume, but no change in fH. Plasma noradrenaline levels were elevated 15- fold after CNP injection while circulating adrenaline levels remained unchanged. These results show that NPs of systemic origin do not directly or indirectly affect basal or cholinergically-mediated catecholamine release in A. rostrata and O. mykiss and that the initial pressor response to NP's in trout cannot be attributed to an elevation of circulating catecholamines. Conversely, CNP appears to be a potent secretagogue (direct or indirect) of noradrenaline release in S. acanthias and thus there is likely to be a significant humoral adrenergic component to the cardiovascular effects of NPs in this species.  相似文献   

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Acute studies have led to the generalization that negative pericardial pressure is necessary for optimal cardiac function in elasmobranchs. We chronically instrumented horn sharks with pericardial catheters to test the hypothesis that ejection of pericardial fluid through the pericardioperitoneal canal (PPC) during routine handling could have accounted in part for previous measurements of exclusively negative pressures (–0.3 to –9.1 cm H2O) in elasmobranchs. Maximum and minimum pericardial pressures measured immediately following routine handling (acute pressures) were more negative than those measured in resting horn sharks at intervals from 1 to 27 days following handling (chronic pressures). Chronic pericardial pulse pressure was less than acute. Entirely positive pericardial pressures were observed on occasion. Handling of chronically catheterized horn sharks resulted in ejection of 21 per cent (range=10–26, n=5) of the initial pericardial fluid volume through the PPC and reduced pericardial pressure. Operating pericardial fluid volume of horn sharks averaged 2.0 ml.kg–1 (range=1.6–2.6, n=9). The PPC opened after 4.3±0.2 ml.kg–1 (x±S.E.) of elasmobranch saline had been slowly infused into the pericardium, corresponding to an average pressure of 1.3±0.2 cm H2O (n=10). The presence of the PPC plus a comparatively large pericardial fluid volume allows horn sharks to regulate pericardial pressure. Our analysis of pericardial pulse pressure, which can be an index of cardiac activity, suggests in contrast to previous studies that the elasmobranch heart can have relatively high stroke volumes at pericardial pressures near ambient. Thus, for venous return in resting or even moderately active elasmobranchs, it is more important that pericardial pressure be pulsatile than at a mean level which is negative.  相似文献   

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Swimming exercise and dissolved oxygen (DO) are important parameters to consider when operating intensive salmonid aquaculture facilities. While previous research has focused on each of these two variables in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, studies examining both variables in combination, and their potential interaction, are absent from the scientific literature. Both swimming exercise (usually measured in body lengths per second, or BL/s) and DO can be readily controlled in modern aquaculture systems; therefore, we sought to evaluate the effects of these variables, separately and combined, on several outcomes in rainbow trout including growth performance, fin health and survival. Rainbow trout fry (18 g) were stocked into 12 circular 0.5 m3 tanks, provided with either high (1.5–2 BL/s) or low (approximately 0.5 BL/s) swimming exercise and high (100% saturation) or low (70% saturation) DO, and grown to approximately 1 kg. By the conclusion of the study, higher DO was independently associated with significantly (p < .05) increased growth performance. Significant differences were not noted in other outcomes, namely feed conversion, condition factor and mortality, although caudal and right pectoral fin damage was associated with low oxygen and low swimming exercise treatments respectively. Cardiosomatic index was significantly higher among exercised fish. These results suggest that swimming exercise and DO at saturation during the culture of rainbow trout can be beneficial to producers through improved growth performance and cardiac health.  相似文献   

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The influence of cortisol on oxygen consumption and osmoregulatory variables was examined in coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki) parr kept in fresh water (FW) and transferred to seawater (SW). Intraperitoneal implants containing cortisol (50 g g–1) in vegetable oil resulted in elevated plasma cortisol titres similar to those observed in fish following a 24h SW exposure. Cortisol treatment significantly increased the oxygen consumption and plasma glucose levels of trout in FW, consistent with the glucocorticoid role of cortisol. Cortisol treatment did not cause any changes in plasma ion concentrations or gill Na+,K+-ATPase activity in FW after 10 days. Cortisol-implanted fish exposed to SW for 24h showed slightly improved ion regulatory ability compare to non-implanted controls. The results of this study suggest that during SW transfer in juvenile salmonids, increases in cortisol may act as both a mineralocorticoid and a glucocorticoid, depending on the developmental state of the fish (e.g., smolt versus parr). Furthermore, the relative energetic costs of osmoregulation and that of the stress associated SW transfer cannot be discerned using whole-animal oxygen consumption rates.  相似文献   

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