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Main Title Toxic effect of water soluble pollutants on freshwater fish.
Author Fromm, Paul Oliver,
CORP Author Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Dept. of Physiology.;Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, Minn.
Year Published 1977
Report Number EPA-600/3-77-057; EPA-R-801034
Stock Number PB-272 092
OCLC Number 29741193
Subjects Environmental toxicology ; Water--Pollution ; Freshwater fishes
Additional Subjects Toxicity ; Fishes ; Mercury organic compounds ; Mercury inorganic compounds ; Iron ; Fresh water fishes ; Trout ; Metabolism ; Blood analysis ; Physiological effects ; Respiration ; Mercury poisoning ; Exposure ; Tables(Data) ; Experimental data ; Bioassay ; Concentration(Composition) ; Gills(Fishes) ; Water pollution effects(Animals) ; Rainbow trout ; Mercury chlorides ; Animal models ; Salmo gairdneri ; Laboratory experiments
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EJBD  EPA 600-3-77-057 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 03/22/2016
EKCD  EPA-600/3-77-057 CEMM/GEMMD Library/Gulf Breeze,FL 06/26/2018
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-3-77-057 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ELBD  EPA 600-3-77-057 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 01/29/2019
ELDD  EPA-600/3-77-057 CCTE/GLTED Library/Duluth,MN 06/02/2000
ESAD  EPA 600-3-77-057 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-272 092 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 63 pages, 28 cm
Abstract
Studies of the effect of inorganic and organic mercury on trout indicated that uptake was primarily via the gills in non-feeding fish. Organic mercury entered fish at a faster rate than inorganic mercury. Exposure of trout to 10 micrograms Hg/l (methyl form) had no effect on the gill oxygen consumption measured in vitro or on the plasma electrolytes. The hematocrit index increased significantly. Studies of the metabolism of iron by normal and iron deficient trout (made deficient by bleeding) indicated that the liver, spleen, and head kidney are the major iron storage organs. Liver iron was reduced by bleeding whereas splenic iron was unaffected. In iron deficient fish more radioiron appeared in erythrocytes than in normal controls. Studies of isolated-perfused gills revealed the presence of both alpha and beta adrenergic receptors and the data obtained indicate the functional surface area of trout gills can be regulated by changes in perfusion pathway through the gills. Use of perfused gills appears to be a very sensitive model to detect deleterious action of pollutants on fish.
Notes
EPA 600/3-77-057. Includes bibliographical references and index.