IN VIVO METABOLISM OF STEROID HORMONES BY SOCKEYE SALMON: (A) IMPAIRED HORMONE CLEARANCE IN MATURE AND SPAWNED PACIFIC SALMON (O. NERKA) (B) PRECURSORS OF 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE

1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 875-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Idler ◽  
B. Truscott ◽  
H. C. Freeman ◽  
V. Chang ◽  
P. J. Schmidt ◽  
...  

Intra-arterially injected cortisone-4-C14 and cortisol-4-C14 were cleared from the plasma of sexually mature and spawned sockeye salmon (O. nerka) at a much slower rate than from the plasma of immature sockeye and spawned Atlantic salmon (S. salar). The results explain the elevated hormone levels found in the blood of mature and spawned sockeye salmon. The normal clearance rate found with Atlantic salmon, which frequently survive spawning, would indicate that the impaired hormone metabolism was associated with the imminent death of the Pacific salmon rather than with the act of spawning.Testosterone and 17α-hydroxyprogesterone were found to be precursors of 11-ketotestosterone, a sex hormone found in high concentrations in the blood of mature sockeye salmon. Testosterone was also formed in vivo from 17α-hydroxyprogesterone. The results suggest more than one pathway for the synthesis of 11-ketotestosterone in salmon. Cortisol was converted to cortisone but no conversion of the former to 11-ketotestosterone could be demonstrated.

1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 875-887
Author(s):  
D. R. Idler ◽  
B. Truscott ◽  
H. C. Freeman ◽  
V. Chang ◽  
P. J. Schmidt ◽  
...  

Intra-arterially injected cortisone-4-C14 and cortisol-4-C14 were cleared from the plasma of sexually mature and spawned sockeye salmon (O. nerka) at a much slower rate than from the plasma of immature sockeye and spawned Atlantic salmon (S. salar). The results explain the elevated hormone levels found in the blood of mature and spawned sockeye salmon. The normal clearance rate found with Atlantic salmon, which frequently survive spawning, would indicate that the impaired hormone metabolism was associated with the imminent death of the Pacific salmon rather than with the act of spawning.Testosterone and 17α-hydroxyprogesterone were found to be precursors of 11-ketotestosterone, a sex hormone found in high concentrations in the blood of mature sockeye salmon. Testosterone was also formed in vivo from 17α-hydroxyprogesterone. The results suggest more than one pathway for the synthesis of 11-ketotestosterone in salmon. Cortisol was converted to cortisone but no conversion of the former to 11-ketotestosterone could be demonstrated.


1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 919-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tsuyuki ◽  
E. Roberts ◽  
R. E. A. Gadd

The muscle myogens and other components of the spring salmon (O. tshawytscha), chum salmon (O. keta), coho salmon (O. kisutch), and sockeye salmon (O. nerka), as well as the lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), were separated by the use of diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) cellulose columns. Significant amounts of slowly dialyzable inosine and inosinic acid which may lead to spurious peaks in moving-boundary electrophoretic separations have been shown to be present in the muscle myogen preparations. The basic differences in the muscle myogen components of the Pacific salmon and the lingcod are compared.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Zamaratskaia ◽  
Martin Rasmussen ◽  
Isabelle Herbin ◽  
Bo Ekstrand ◽  
Vladimir Zlabek

In vitro inhibition of porcine cytochrome P450 by 17β-estradiol and 17α-estradiol Sexually mature pigs are known to possess high concentrations of testicular steroids, which have been shown to change the activities of cytochrome P450 in vitro. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the regulation of CYP1A and CYP2E1 activity by the steroids dihydrotestosterone (DHT), 3β-androstenol, 17β-estradiol and 17α-estradiol. Catalytic activities of 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) and 7-methoxyresorufin O-demethylase (MROD) were used as markers of CYP1A activities, while p-nitrophenol hydroxylase (PNPH) was used as a marker of CYP2E1 activities. Of the steroids tested, only 17β-estradiol and 17α-estradiol inhibited EROD and MROD activities. This inhibition was observed when a steroid concentration of 100 μM was used, while lower concentrations showed no inhibitory effect. PNPH activities were inhibited only by 100 μM of 17β-estradiol. The significance of these results in vivo is unknown because inhibition was only found when concentrations of estrogens higher than physiological levels were used. Nevertheless, the results provided further evidence on the important role of estrogens in regulation of porcine cytochrome P450 activities.


Genetics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 915-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigenori Murata ◽  
Nobuyoshi Takasaki ◽  
Masako Saitoh ◽  
Hidenori Tachida ◽  
Norihiro Okada

Abstract Salmonid species contain numerous short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs), known collectively as the HpaI family, in their genomes. Amplification and successive integration of individual SINEs into the genomes have occurred during the evolution of salmonids. We reported previously a strategy for determining the phylogenetic relationships among the Pacific salmonids in which these SINEs were used as temporal landmarks of evolution. Here, we provide evidence for extensive genomic rearrangements that involved retropositions and deletions in a common ancestor of all the Pacific salmon and trout. Our results provide genetic support for the recent phylogenetic reassignment of steelhead and related species from the genus Salmo to the genus Oncorhynchus. Several other informative loci identified by insertions of HpaI SINEs have been isolated, and previously proposed branching orders of the Oncorhynchus species have been confirmed. The authenticity of our phylogenetic tree is supported both by the isolation of more than two informative loci per branching point and by the congruence of all our data, which suggest that the period between succesive speciations was sufficiently long for each SINE that had been amplified in the original species to become fixed in all individuals of that species.


2020 ◽  
Vol 200 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-291
Author(s):  
E. A. Shevlyakov ◽  
S. V. Shubkin

Aerial survey of the pacific salmon spawning grounds was conducted in the water bodies of Chukotka belonged to the Bering Sea basin (the Anadyr, Velikaya, Tumanskaya Rivers and Meinypilgyno lake-river system) in 2019, for the first time since 1992. Total flight time was 35 hours, approximate length of the transects was 3,800 km. Number of the spawners was estimated as 660.7 . 103 ind. for chum salmon, 112.2 . 103 ind. for sockeye salmon, and 3678.0 . 103 ind. for pink salmon, features of their distribution are described.


1991 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 2403-2407 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Welch ◽  
L. Margolis ◽  
M. A. Henderson ◽  
S. McKinnell

Adult Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) returning from offshore waters to spawn frequently bear a wide range of wounds and scars. One of the most common wounds is a single slash mark on the posterior third of one side of the body, running posteroventrally from near the dorsal fin at a roughly 45° angle. The evidence is reviewed for the occurrence of slash-marked salmon around the Pacific Rim over the past 30 yr. A jaw fragment removed from the wound of a slash-marked sockeye salmon (O. nerka) and identified as belonging to a daggertooth (Anotopterus pharao: order Myctophiformes), a highly modified bathypelagic fish, provides the first direct evidence for the cause of these wounds. Given the frequency of slash-marked adult salmon in coastal fisheries, A. pharao may be a significant cause of mortality in Pacific salmon that has previously gone unrecognized.


1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 919-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tsuyuki ◽  
E. Roberts ◽  
R. E. A. Gadd

The muscle myogens and other components of the spring salmon (O. tshawytscha), chum salmon (O. keta), coho salmon (O. kisutch), and sockeye salmon (O. nerka), as well as the lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), were separated by the use of diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) cellulose columns. Significant amounts of slowly dialyzable inosine and inosinic acid which may lead to spurious peaks in moving-boundary electrophoretic separations have been shown to be present in the muscle myogen preparations. The basic differences in the muscle myogen components of the Pacific salmon and the lingcod are compared.


1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1738-1748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Devlin

Two types of growth hormone genes have been isolated from sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and their complete nucleotide sequence determined. The genes encode proteins of 210 amino acids and show considerable similarity to growth hormones characterized in other salmonids and fishes. The two genes presumably arose from a gene duplication event that generated the tetraploid condition in salmonids and are highly conserved in their coding regions. The sequences have diverged approximately 18% in noncoding regions since the gene duplication event and show numerous deletions and/or insertions. Isolation of these two genes from a Pacific salmon allows comparison of their sequences to growth hormone genes characterized from rainbow trout and from Atlantic salmon. The results indicate that rainbow trout is more similar to Pacific than to Atlantic salmon and suggest that Atlantic salmon diverged from Pacific salmonids at a time when sockeye and rainbow trout were part of a common breeding population. These results support the recent reclassification of rainbow trout from the genus Salmo to Oncorhynchus.


1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Ali ◽  
W. R. Stevenson ◽  
Judith S. Press

The structure of the Atlantic salmon retina corresponds to descriptions by previous workers and is also similar to that of the Pacific salmon retina. Retinal epithelial pigment light-adapts in 60 minutes. Cones light-adapt in 45 minutes. Dark-adaptation of the pigment and cones occurs in 70 minutes. Retinal index shows light-adaptation occurring in 60 minutes and dark-adaptation in 70 minutes. Results are compared with those of the Pacific salmon's.


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