Tissue levels of the antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase and catalase in fish Astyanax bimaculatus from the Una River Basin

This paper seeks to identify the biomarker response to oxidative stress in Astyanax bimaculatus, a freshwater fish, collected from the Una River and its associated water bodies. The fish were collected using fishing nets at three different points on the river basin, namely Fazenda Piloto (FP), Ipiranga (IP) and Remédios (RM), during the period from December 2013 to March 2014. Physical and chemical analyses of the water at the sample locations indicate that IP and RM possibly have larger concentration of either natural or anthropic pollutants as compared to FP. FP can therefore be considered as the point less impacted by pollutants than other points. Hepatic activity of antioxidant stress enzymes, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT), were measured in the specimens. The levels of SOD were reduced at RM while they were elevated in fish collected at IP. The CAT levels for the fish at RM and IP were about 148.9% and 202.4% above the values at FP, respectively. These results suggest that antioxidant enzymes could be used as biomarkers to measure oxidative stress caused by pollutants in the Una River Basin.

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Main Authors:	Batista,Maria Tereza Oliveira, Rodrigues Junior,Edson, Feijó-Oliveira,Mariana, Ribeiro,Anne Caroline, Rodrigues,Edson, Suda,Cecilia Nahomi Kawagoe, Vani,Gannabathula Sree
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas 2014
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-993X2014000400006
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