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Effect of diet composition on growth performance, hepatic metabolism and antioxidant activities in Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii, Brandt, 1869) submitted to starvation and refeeding

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Many fish species undergo natural starvation periods. Adaptation to starvation is possible through the activation of behavioral, biochemical and physiological mechanisms. Knowledge of the effect of dietary nutrients on the intermediary metabolism during starvation and refeeding can be useful to improve fish health and optimize aquaculture production. To analyze the effect of dietary nutrients on liver metabolism of Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii) submitted to starvation and refeeding, four isoenergetic diets differing in nutrient composition were designed: LP-St (38 % protein, 12 % lipid, 36 % carbohydrate), HP-St (44 % protein, 10 % lipid, 30 % carbohydrate), LP-L (38 % protein, 18 % lipid, 25 % carbohydrate) and HP-L (44 % protein, 16 % lipid, 22 % carbohydrate). Four groups of fish were fed 3 weeks to satiety with the corresponding diet, starved for 2 weeks and then refeed 5 weeks to satiety on the same diet. Starvation mobilized the hepatic lipid store to a greater extent than glycogen. Starvation increased superoxide dismutase activity irrespective of the diet, while low protein diets (LP-St and LP-L) increased catalase activity. The oxidative damage decreased after 5 weeks of refeeding. Refeeding the starved fish on the HP-St diet promoted the greatest growth performance. In addition to reporting for the first time the effect of diet composition on growth, liver composition and antioxidant activities in Siberian sturgeon submitted to starvation and refeeding, our findings suggest that refeeding on HP-St diet stimulated the use of dietary carbohydrates and allowed a protein sparing effect in Siberian sturgeon.

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Acknowledgments

The research was financially supported by Tarbiat Modares University (TMU, Iran). The authors would like to thank the International Sturgeon Research Institute of Caspian Sea (Gilan, Iran) for fish husbandry, the Cellular and Molecular Research Center of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Tehran, Iran) for technical support and Mazandaran Animal and Aquatic feed (Manaqua) Co. (Sari, Iran). We would like to thank Morteza Kamali for his kind technical help.

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  1. Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. BOX 64414-356, Noor, Mazandaran, Iran

    Sedigheh Babaei & Abdolmohammad Abedian Kenari

  2. Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mehdi Hedayati

  3. International Sturgeon Research Institute of Caspian Sea, Guilan, Iran

    Mohammad Ali Yazdani Sadati

  4. Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Isidoro Metón

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Babaei, S., Abedian Kenari, A., Hedayati, M. et al. Effect of diet composition on growth performance, hepatic metabolism and antioxidant activities in Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii, Brandt, 1869) submitted to starvation and refeeding. Fish Physiol Biochem 42, 1509–1520 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-016-0236-0

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