Effects of chronic exposure to waterborne copper and nickel in binary mixture on tissue-specific metal accumulation and reproduction in fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Chemosphere ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 964-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa K. Driessnack ◽  
Ankur Jamwal ◽  
Som Niyogi
Keyword(s):  
Binary Mixture ◽  
Chronic Exposure ◽  
Fathead Minnow ◽  
Metal Accumulation ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Tissue Specific ◽  
Specific Metal

Tissue-specific patterns of synthesis of heat-shock proteins and thermal tolerance of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 2021-2027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D. Dyer ◽  
Kenneth L. Dickson ◽  
Earl G. Zimmerman ◽  
Brenda M. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Heat Shock ◽  
Heat Shock Proteins ◽  
Brain Tissue ◽  
Fathead Minnow ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Gill Tissue ◽  
Tissue Specific ◽  
Thermal Limits ◽  
Shock Proteins ◽  
The Brain

Qualitative and quantitative differences in the heat-shock response in brain, gill, and striated muscle tissues of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) were investigated. The maximum sublethal heat-shock temperature was 34 °C. The heat-shock proteins (hsps) induced, their biosynthetic rates, minimum temperatures required for induction, and maximum temperatures at which each tissue synthesized hsps were tissue specific. Six hsps were induced in gill tissue (100, 90, 78, 70, 68, and 60 kDa), four in muscle tissue (100, 90, 78, and 70 kDa), and three in brain tissue (90, 70, and 68 kDa). Minimum temperatures required for inducing the stress response in gill, muscle, and brain were 28, 31, and 32 °C, respectively. Maximum hsp synthesis and accumulation occurred at 33 °C for the brain and 34°C for muscle and gill. Synthesis and accumulation of hsps decreased to near pre-exposure levels in the brain at 34 °C. The fact that brain tissue synthesized the fewest hsps and had the lowest capacity for synthesis at the upper thermal limits of the organism supports the hypothesis that the central nervous system governs the thermal limits to survival in poikilotherms.

Effects of chronic sublethal exposure to waterborne Cu, Cd or Zn in rainbow trout 2: tissue specific metal accumulation

2000 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C McGeer ◽  
Cheryl Szebedinszky ◽  
D Gordon McDonald ◽  
Chris M Wood
Keyword(s):  
Rainbow Trout ◽  
Metal Accumulation ◽  
Tissue Specific ◽  
Sublethal Exposure ◽  
Specific Metal

Development of apical pits in chloride cells of the gills of Pimephales promelas after chronic exposure to acid water

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 462-463
Author(s):  
Richard L. Leino ◽  
Jon G. Anderson ◽  
J. Howard McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Chronic Exposure ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Chloride Cells ◽  
Fathead Minnows ◽  
Secondary Lamellae ◽  
Untreated Water ◽  
Water Ph ◽  
Flow Through

Groups of 12 fathead minnows were exposed for 129 days to Lake Superior water acidified (pH 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 or 6.5) with reagent grade H2SO4 by means of a multichannel toxicant system for flow-through bioassays. Untreated water (pH 7.5) had the following properties: hardness 45.3 ± 0.3 (95% confidence interval) mg/1 as CaCO3; alkalinity 42.6 ± 0.2 mg/1; Cl- 0.03 meq/1; Na+ 0.05 meq/1; K+ 0.01 meq/1; Ca2+ 0.68 meq/1; Mg2+ 0.26 meq/1; dissolved O2 5.8 ± 0.3 mg/1; free CO2 3.2 ± 0.4 mg/1; T= 24.3 ± 0.1°C. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd gills were subsequently processed for LM (methacrylate), TEM and SEM respectively.Three changes involving chloride cells were correlated with increasing acidity: 1) the appearance of apical pits (figs. 2,5 as compared to figs. 1, 3,4) in chloride cells (about 22% of the chloride cells had pits at pH 5.0); 2) increases in their numbers and 3) increases in the % of these cells in the epithelium of the secondary lamellae.

Responses in a Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas) Lifecycle Test and in Wild White Sucker (Catostomus commersoni) Exposed to a Canadian Bleached Kraft Mill Effluent

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne L. Parrott ◽  
L. Mark Hewitt ◽  
Tibor G. Kovacs ◽  
Deborah L. MacLatchy ◽  
Pierre H. Martel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Egg Production ◽  
Fathead Minnow ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Fish Reproduction ◽  
White Sucker ◽  
Catostomus Commersoni ◽  
Liver Size ◽  
Paper Mill Effluent ◽  
Kraft Mill Effluent ◽  
Kraft Mill

Abstract To evaluate currently available bioassays for their use in investigating the causes of pulp and paper mill effluent effects on fish reproduction, the responses of wild white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) collected from the receiving environment at the bleached kraft mill at La Tuque, Quebec, were compared with responses of fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) exposed to effluent in a laboratory lifecycle test. White sucker collected at effluent exposed sites had increased liver size but none of the reproductive effects that had been documented in earlier field studies at this site. Exposure to 1, 3, 10, 30, and 100% bleached kraft mill effluent (BKME) in the lab led to significantly decreased length, but increased weight and liver size in male fathead minnow. Female length was also decreased and liver size was increased at high effluent exposures. Most effluent concentrations (1 to 30%) significantly increased egg production compared with controls. The fathead minnow lifecycle assay mirrored the effects seen in wild fish captured downstream of the BKME discharge. These results will be used to select short-term fish tests for investigating the causes of and solutions to the effects of mill effluents on fish reproduction.

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