Seasonal variation in toxicity of puffer fish, <em>Arothron immaculatus</em>, <em>Chelonodon patoca</em> and <em>Lagocephalus scleratus</em> along Tamil Nadu coast
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Seasonal variation in toxicity of puffer fish, <em>Arothron immaculatus</em>, <em>Chelonodon patoca</em> and <em>Lagocephalus scleratus</em> along Tamil Nadu coast
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Soumya, Jal
Samanta, Khora S. |
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Puffers
<i>Arothron immaculatus</i> <i>Chelonodon patoca</i> <i>Lagocephalus scleratus</i> Tetrodotoxin Toxicity |
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Anatomical distribution of toxin in the puffers were studied by mouse bioassay. Presence of Tetrodotoxin was analyzed by UV spectrophotometry, FTIR and fluorescence spectrophotometry. During the study we observed that <em>Arothron immaculatus</em>, <em>Chelonodon patoca</em> were toxic throughout the year, while <em>Lagocephalus scleratus</em> showed slight toxicity in its skin and muscle during the monsoon season and was non-toxic during pre-monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. In <em>Arothron immaculatus</em>, particularly the skin and gonad were mostly toxic. In <em>Chelonodon patoca</em>, gonad was highly toxic while the skin and intestine also showed increase in their toxicity at times. However, in both the toxic species, muscle tissue did not show any toxicity. |
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2018-01-15T07:18:01Z
2018-01-15T07:18:01Z 2018-01 |
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Article
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0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/43432 |
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en_US
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<img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
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NISCAIR-CSIR, India
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IJMS Vol.47(01) [January 2018]
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