Blood Performance, Enzymatic Alteration and Recovery study on Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) Exposed to Pyrethroids

Author: B. Mahanta, D. Kusre and A.Q. Osmani

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Abstract

Population explosion and industrial domination in third world countries like India, is the major cause for hazardous damage of ecosystem, especially aquatic ecosystem and aquatic organisms. From agricultural field and house hold wastes containing pesticides released in the waterbodies directly or indirectly is highly responsible for water pollution. The polluted water caries different health hazards to the body of aquatic organisms. The hazards maybe either physiological, biochemical or behavioural, which can directly impact on the health status of aquatic organism. Cat fish like H. fossilis, C. magur are considered as a pure source of protein and nutrition among low-income group of this country and such kind of biohazards not only disrupt their nutritional value of food fishes, it also disrupts the ecological balance. The present study, is aimed to investigate Blood performance and biochemical studies in the Liver, Kidney and Gill tissue of Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) (e.g. H. fossilis) exposed a potential pesticide Pyrethroid. Different hematological parameters were determined by using blood samples from control and treated groups and analyzed. For enzymatic study tissues like Live, Kidney and Gills obtained from both control and treated groups were analyzed by using enzyme kits. Student’s t test is use to compare the statistical data. Using MS excel all data are interpreted in bar diagram. Altered blood cell count, increased value of aberrant cell count, increased amount of micronuclei formation was found due to the effect of Pyrethroid. Significant increase in ACP and Glutathione-S-Transferase (GST) activity was recorded in the result. In the recovery period the GST values were recorded almost normal like the control group. The hazardous effect of pyrethroid was seen in both cellular level and enzymatic level in this study and found that it can disturbed normal blood physiology as well as behavioural and enzymatic stability.

Keywords

Micronuclei, Haematotoxicity, Acid phosphatase, Glutathione-S-transferase, H. fossilis

Conclusion

Water pollution due to the use of agricultural and industrial insecticides are very common now a days. These uses benefitted the farmer for only a particular period of time. But the hazards produced by this chemical remain in the environment for decades and harming the ecosystem and showing health hazards to the aquatic organism. Due to biomagnification this hazard transferred to the human bodies too. Therefore, it is the high time to opt for new biodegradable, high effective and low hazardous component for our agricultural as well as industrial yield.

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B. Mahanta, D. Kusre and A.Q. Osmani (2023). Blood Performance, Enzymatic Alteration and Recovery study on Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) Exposed to Pyrethroids. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(3): 430-435.