Pyruvate kinase isozymes in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): Pyruvate kinase and antioxidant parameters in pancreas disease

Citation

Bell JG, McVicar AH & Cowey CB (1987) Pyruvate kinase isozymes in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): Pyruvate kinase and antioxidant parameters in pancreas disease. Aquaculture, 66 (1), pp. 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/0044-8486%2887%2990281-X

Abstract
Pyruvate kinase (PK) isozyme electrophoretic patterns were obtained from extracts of Atlantic salmon liver, kidney, white muscle, red muscle, brain, heart, gill, spleen and caeca. PK isozymes were identified in the plasma of selenium-deficient and pancreas-diseased Atlantic salmon. The source of the PK in each case was shown from the isozyme pattern to be from skeletal muscle. By comparison with control fish plasma PK activity was increased and liver glutathione peroxidase activity decreased in Atlantic salmon with pancreas disease. Although plasma, liver and white muscle vitamin E levels were reduced in Atlantic salmon having pancreas disease, these levels were well in excess of those likely to be responsible for muscle damage.

Journal
Aquaculture: Volume 66, Issue 1

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Professor Gordon Bell

Emeritus Professor, Institute of Aquaculture