The effect of sublethal concentrations of copper and zinc on ventilatory activity. Blood oxygen and pH in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
- 30 April 1975
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Water Research
- Vol. 9 (4), 401-408
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0043-1354(75)90185-2
Abstract
Changes in buccal and opercular pressure amplitude, as well as ventilation and coughing frequency were monitored in rainbow trout using catheterization of respiratory cavities and pressure transducers. One or more of the ventilatory parameters measured were found to change under toxicant stress at concentrations of copper or zinc at or below the LC 50. Possible synergistic effects were indicated when the two metal ions were tested together. Serial analyses of arterial PO2 and pH in fish exposed to copper and zinc individually at concentrations approximating the LC 50 showed that environmental zinc produced a sharp decrease in both PO2 and pH. Copper, however, caused little effect other than a transient increase in pH. The toxic action of the two metals in low concentrations thus may not be the same.Keywords
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