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Transfer Changes in Fish Gills During Stress

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Toxins, Drugs, and Pollutants in Marine Animals

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Abstract

Marine fish live in a complex, although for most species rather stable environment. However, changes in pH, salinity, and oxygen availability are of concern for the migratory and estuarine fish and pollutants may affect marine fish populations exposed to industrial waste water. In these situations the fish may be exposed to various types of “stress” (stress stimuli) such as hypoxia, physical damage, changes in temperature and salinity or, in some cases, pollutants (see Fig. 1). Such stimuli produce physiological changes in the animal (stress response), including an increased sympathico-adrenal activity which leads to increased plasma levels of catecholamines and also release of corticosteroids (Fig. 1). The stress response induced by short-term exposure to stress includes the various types of defence reactions (cf. Cannon 1929), which allow the animal maintain homeostasis in the new environment, or to move away from the stressful stimulus.

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  1. Department of Zoophysiology, University of Göteborg, S-400 31, Goteborg, Sweden

    S. Nilsson

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  1. Institute of General Physiology, University of Messina, Via dei Verdi 85, I-98100, Messina, Italy

    L. Bolis

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    J. Zadunaisky

  3. Laboratory of Animal Physiology, University of Liège, 22, Quai van Beneden, B-4020, Liège, Belgium

    R. Gilles

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Ungell, AL., Kiessling, A., Nilsson, S. (1984). Transfer Changes in Fish Gills During Stress. In: Bolis, L., Zadunaisky, J., Gilles, R. (eds) Toxins, Drugs, and Pollutants in Marine Animals. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69903-0_9

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