Response of Marine Fish Liver on Environmental Pollution
Journal: Apple Academic Press eBooks
Year: 2017

This chapter discusses the response reactions of fish Scorpaena porcus, caught in Sevastopol bays, with different degrees of chemical pollution, to the unfavorable ecological factors. It shows the significant increase of the number of melanomacrophage centers (MMCs) in the liver of fish from the most polluted site. Increase of oxidized products and chemiluminescence values in the liver extracts of fish from the contaminated bay was the result of oxidative stress in the animals. The results of hy