Background: The northern pike Esox lucius is a fresh water species belonging to the Esocidae family. It is a carnivorous fish which mostly feeds on invertebrates and fishes. The morphology of its intestine is very useful for understanding the fish’s digestive physiology, diagnosing some intestinal diseases and formulating suitable feeds. OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to determine the anat...

The influence of replacing diet fish meal LT94 (FM) with different levels of full fat soybean meal (FFSB) on growth performance and enzymes activity in stomach, hepato-pancreas and intestine were investigated for Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. Four diets (D1, D2, D3 and D4) were formulated 0, 15, 20, and 20 g/100 protein of diets + DL-methionine by replacing FFSB with fish meal respectivel...

The current research was conducted with the aim to investigate rate of chromium accumulation in various tissues commercially valuable freshwater fish, Grass Carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella. Investigation included skin, muscles, liver, swim bladder, intestine, and gills fish. For this purpose, fish were exposed sub lethal concentration hexavalent form potassium dichromate a dose 120 mg/L for 40, 2...

Mucus secreted onto the surface of the intestine forms a physical barrier to invading parasites so that a possible attachment of helminths to the surface is prevented and their expulsion by peristalsis facilitated. In mammals, intestinal parasites induce hyperplasia and hypertrophy of intestine goblet cells and provoke changes in the mucus composition. In fish, this topic has received less atte...

this experiment was conducted to examine effects of different levels of niacin on the gut and liver histology and also some activity of the liver enzymes in the blood serum of common carp. a control diet (containing 30 mg niacin kg-1 commercial diet) and four other diets were prepared which had 50, 70, 90 and 110 mg niacin per kg of commercial diet, added by spraying. fish with initial average ...

The aim of the present work was to determine if a plant protein-based diet containing vegetable oils (VO) as the major lipid source could alter the distribution of IgM immunoreactive cells (IRCs) and the IgM expression pattern in the intestine and haematopoietic tissues of gilthead sea bream (GSB) (Sparus aurata) challenged with the myxosporean Enteromyxum leei. In a first trial (T1), GSB fed f...

the aim of this study was to assess the effects of nucleotide on intestinal microbiota of striped catfish, pangasianodon hypophthalmus . different levels of the nt (0, 0.25. 0.5, 0.75 and 1 % weight per weight, ww -1 ) were added to basal diet and then randomly allocated to triplicate groups of fish with average initial weight (1.52±0.11 g) for 10 weeks. at the end of the experiment, at least 1...

a larger proportion of energy intake for reproduction and also low food availability maydecrease the growth rate of other organs during the late stage of the gonadal development. themain goal of this study is to examine the biological characteristics and organs growth pattern inclupeonella cultriventris during the late stages of gonad development. samples were collectedby capturing 300-350 kilk...

Copper sulfate and trichlorfon are commonly used in aquaculture. They often alone or combination to kill pathogens parasites. However, there few studies evaluating the toxic effects of copper on fish. The intestine is an important digestive immune tissue for fish, which essential growth development. In this study, zebrafish were as research model detect (0.5 mg/L) at common production concentra...