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Impact of chlorpyrifos on behavior and histopathological indices in different tissues of freshwater fish Channa punctatus (Bloch)

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The present systematic experiment was conducted to estimate the impact of behavioral and pathological indices on freshwater fish Channa punctatus exposed to sub-lethal concentration (5 ppm) of an organophosphorus insecticide chlorpyrifos (CPF). Fish were segregated into four experimental groups (G1, control; G2, 10 days; G3, 20 days; and G4, 30 days exposure), each group comprises 15 fish in triplicate. The behavioral and histological changes were assessed in each group. Severe behavioral changes were observed in the 30 days, moderate changes in the 20 days, and mild changes in the 10 days exposure groups respectively when compared with the control group. The pathologic lesions such as inter lamellae space, necrotic lamellae, fused lamellae, and lifting of lamellae epithelium in gills; vacuolation, blood conjunctions, and necrotic hepatocytes in the liver; and lamina propria, fusion of villi, and flattened villi in the intestine were observed. These structural alterations of the gills, liver, and intestine could affect respiration, osmotic and ionic regulation; absorption, storage and secretion; digestion; and absorption of nutrients respectively, which in turn could adversely affect the growth and survival of freshwater fish Channa punctatus. This study serves as a biomonitoring tool for the effects of organophosphorus insecticide CPF on the aquatic biota.

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The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at the King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for funding this Research Group project no RG-1437-005.

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  1. P.G. and Research Department of Zoology, National College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, 620001, India

    Arumugam Stalin & Varadharajan Gokula

  2. P.G. and Research Department of Zoology, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, 620020, India

    Palani Suganthi

  3. Department of Biomedical Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, 620024, India

    Subramanian Mathivani

  4. Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Box 2455, Riyadh, PO, 11451, Saudi Arabia

    Bilal Ahmad Paray & Mohammad K. Al-Sadoon

  5. P.G and Research Department of Zoology, The New College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 014, India

    Mohamed Saiyad Musthafa

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Stalin, A., Suganthi, P., Mathivani, S. et al. Impact of chlorpyrifos on behavior and histopathological indices in different tissues of freshwater fish Channa punctatus (Bloch). Environ Sci Pollut Res 26, 17623–17631 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05165-3

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