The interactive effects of ammonia exposure, nutritional status and exercise on metabolic and physiological responses in gold fish (Carassius auratus L.)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 109, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-46

  Sinha, Amit Kumar ^a   Liew, Hon Jung ^a,b   Diricx, Marjan ^a   Blust, Ronny ^a   De Boeck, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ammonia excretion; Ammonia toxicity; Critical swimming speeds (U crit), Exercise; Gold fish (Carassius auratus); Plasma lactate; Routine swimming; Starvation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLYCOGEN; LACTIC ACID;

AMMONIA; BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; STARVATION; TOXICITY;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIUM UPTAKE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTAMINATED FISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GOLDFISH; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; STARVATION; SWIMMING; WATER POLLUTION; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GOLDFISH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SWIMMING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CARASSIUS AURATUS;

EID: 84255209178     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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