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Assessment of the Relationship of Micronuclei, Anomalous Nuclei and Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Ratio of Red Blood Corpuscles in Fish Induced by Ethyl Methane Sulphonate


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1 Department of Zoology, Netaji Subhas Open University, DD-26, Sector-1, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700 064, India
     

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Two different doses (1% and 2%) of Ethyl Methane Sulphonate (EMS), a known mutagen was treated on two different fishes, namely, tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) and koi (Anabas testudineus) in respect of suitable distilled water treated control. The present paper aims to assess the relationship of micronuclei, anomalous nuclei and nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio of red blood corpuscles induced by EMS in these fish models. The result shows a positive co-relation among all these parameters examined and inflict an insight towards the relevance of these parameters on the pollution status of the water body.

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Mutagen, Nuclear abnormalities, Cytotoxicity, Genotoxicity, Erythrocytes, Aquatic toxicity, Fish.
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Authors

Onkar Nath Ghosh
Department of Zoology, Netaji Subhas Open University, DD-26, Sector-1, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700 064, India
Bibhas Guha
Department of Zoology, Netaji Subhas Open University, DD-26, Sector-1, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700 064, India

Abstract


Two different doses (1% and 2%) of Ethyl Methane Sulphonate (EMS), a known mutagen was treated on two different fishes, namely, tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) and koi (Anabas testudineus) in respect of suitable distilled water treated control. The present paper aims to assess the relationship of micronuclei, anomalous nuclei and nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio of red blood corpuscles induced by EMS in these fish models. The result shows a positive co-relation among all these parameters examined and inflict an insight towards the relevance of these parameters on the pollution status of the water body.

Keywords


Mutagen, Nuclear abnormalities, Cytotoxicity, Genotoxicity, Erythrocytes, Aquatic toxicity, Fish.

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