Comparative haematological and serum biochemical analysis of catfishes Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1794) with respect to sex
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...There is growing interest in the study of haemato-biochemical parameters and these parameters are regarded as important for aquaculture purposes [3]....
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...(Acharya and Mohanty 2014)....
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...The mean value of RBC differed significantly (p 0.001) between male C. batrachus and female H. fossilis....
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...Within first 2h after each extraction, the blood samples were processed for Haemoglobin (Hb), total erythrocyte count (TEC/RBC), total leukocyte count (TLC/WBC) and packed cell volume (PCV) as follows: Haemoglobin concentration (Hb) was measured by Sahli’s acid haematin method [14]....
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...RBC and WBC were determined using a Neubauer haemocytometer....
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...The value of RBC is higher in male than female in both the fishes but it shows significant difference in H. fossilis (Fig....
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...The RBC content of this investigation for male and female C. batrachus is 2.97±0.07 and 2.55±0.10 (106mm-3) and it is lower than that H. fossilis for both male and female are3....
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...Changes in haematological parameters depend upon the aquatic biotope, fish species, age, and sexual maturity and health status [8-10]....
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...These should be as close as possible to normal values of various blood components considered as reliable descriptors of healthy fish under natural conditions [11]....
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...For this reason, blood parameters are increasingly used as indicators of the physiological condition or sub-lethal stress response in fish to endogenous or exogenous changes [11-12]....
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