Antioxidant levels from different Antarctic fish caught around South Georgia Island and Shag Rocks

• Language: unknown
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: adaptation; antioxidant; enzyme activity; ichthyofauna; metabolism; Antarctica; South Georgia; Antarctic; Shag Rocks; South Georgia Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_07224060_v23_n3_p160_Ansaldo; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_07224060_v23_n3_p160_Ansaldo

Antarctic fish have been isolated for over several million years in an environment with a very low and constant temperature and high oxygen concentration. In such conditions the oxidative stress might be an important factor affecting their metabolic adaptive strategies. Activity of the antioxidant e...