THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS ON THE IMMUNE FUNCTIONS OF MARINE FLATFISH ...
Given the widespread concern that chemical contaminants may be associated with infectious disease outbreaks in marine fish populations, work has been undertaken with the aim of developing a suite of non-specific and specific assays of marine fish immune function and the application of these techniqu...
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University of Plymouth
1996
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.24382/4240 https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/2780 |
| Summary: | Given the widespread concern that chemical contaminants may be associated with infectious disease outbreaks in marine fish populations, work has been undertaken with the aim of developing a suite of non-specific and specific assays of marine fish immune function and the application of these techniques in a variety of field and laboratory investigations. Most of the work focused on dab, Limanda limanda (L.) in view of the importance of this species in several North Sea fish disease monitoring programmes, and was also supplemented with investigations of specific immune function in turbot, Scopthalmus maximus (L.). Initial field studies examined non-specific immune function in terms of lymphoid organ morphology in dab sampled along a North Sea gradient of chemical contamination during the March 1990 ICES/IOC Bremerhaven workshop. Significant differences were observed in the kidney and spleen cell populations from dab, and these observations were considered in view of the various other physico-chemical and ... |
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