EFFECT OF DIETARY ZINC DEFICIENCY ON THE SKELETAL MUSCLES OF MOSQUITO FISH, GAMBUSIA AFFINIS


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Authors

  • S K Taneja Department of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh
  • A Lath Department of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh
  • D D Bansal Department of Biochemistry, Punjab University, Chandigarh

Abstract

Zinc deficiency was induced in Gambusia affinis by feeding the experimental fish on semisynthetic
Zn-deficient diet for 9 weeks. Their skeletal muscles were subjected to biochemical analysis and compared
with the values of the control fish fed on Zn-supplement diet containing ZnSo4. The data revealed
that the dietary Zn-deficiency caused a reduction in DNA (25.26%), RNA (48.2%), protein (49.73%),
alanine(36.8 %), aspartate(53.24 %), amino-transferases, glycogen (37.2 %), glucose-6-phosphatase (29.2 %),
fructose-diphosphatase (36.02%), LDH (43.70%), acid (33.2%), alkaline (53%), phosphatases and accumulation
of total lipids (42.2%), phospholipids (35.2%) and cholesterol (47.7 %) in the skeletal muscles of
fish.

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Author Biographies

  • S K Taneja, Department of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh
    Department of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh
  • A Lath, Department of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh
    Department of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh
  • D D Bansal, Department of Biochemistry, Punjab University, Chandigarh
    Department of Biochemistry, Punjab University, Chandigarh

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Vol. 35 No. 3 (1988)

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Taneja, S. K., Lath, A., & Bansal, D. D. (2011). EFFECT OF DIETARY ZINC DEFICIENCY ON THE SKELETAL MUSCLES OF MOSQUITO FISH, GAMBUSIA AFFINIS. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 35(3), 216-220. https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJF/article/view/10705