2023 Ecosystem Transformation 6 (3), 86–104

Influence of chronic intake of small doses of mercury on some biochemical parameters of lipid and protein metabolism in goldfish Carassius auratus (L., 1758)

Garina D.V.  

The effect of mercury, supplied with food for three months, was studied on some biochemical parameters (concentration of total protein, total cholesterol, and high-density lipoproteins) of the blood serum of goldfish Carassius auratus (L., 1758). The content of mercury in the muscles of the fish that consumed the food with a high content of mercury (“HM”) increased by 5.8, 10.4, and 11.7 times, with a low content (“LM”), by 1.4, 3.2, and 3.2 times after 1, 2, and 3 months, respectively (p < 0.05). Accumulation of mercury resulted in increasing of all the studied parameters; the total cholesterol concentration increased to the maximum in the fish of the experimental group by the end of the
experiment (by 3.1 times). At the same time, there was a significant positive relationship between the biochemical parameters of blood and the mercury content in the fish muscles. The obtained results indicated significant changes in the lipid and protein metabolism of fish under the influence of mercury, their intensity depended on the amount of mercury in the feed and the exposure time.

D. V. Garina
Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences
Borok 109, Nekouzsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, 152742 Russia

dvgarina1976@yandex.ru

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