Rapid Detection of Sublethal Toxicity Using Locomotor Activity of Rainbow Trout Juveniles.

This study examined changes in locomotor activity of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) juveniles exposed to sublethal concentrations of hexavalent chromium (Cr) (as a single pollutant) and landfill leachate (as an complex mixture of mainly organic compounds, including trace amounts of metals). Fish were first examined for baseline behavior patterns for 3 h to determine the appropriate duration of acclimation and the control level. The average velocity of fish was found to be the most informative among other endpoints throughout the 3 h long acclimation.

Analysis of nuclear abnormalities in erythrocytes of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) treated with Cu and Zn and after 4-, 8-, and 12-day depuration (post-treatment recovery).

The induction of micronuclei (MN), nuclear buds (NB), bi-nucleated erythrocytes with nucleoplasmic bridge (BNb), vacuolated (VacNuc), blebbed (BL), 8-shaped nuclei, bi-nucleated (BN) and fragmented-apoptotic (FA) erythrocytes was analysed in the peripheral blood, cephalic kidney and liver of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss after 4-day treatment with copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) mixture solutions and in 4-, 8- and 12-day depuration process. Fish (three treatment and one control group, N=40) were exposed to 0.0625, 0.

Accumulation of heavy metals in different body tissues of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., exposed to a model mixture (Cu, Zn, Ni, Cr, Pb, Cd) and singly to nickel, chromium, and lead.

One-year-old Atlantic salmon smolts were exposed for 2 weeks either to six priority heavy metal mixture or to Ni, Pb, and Cr singly at a concentration corresponding to Lithuanian inland water standards: Cu - 0.01, Zn - 0.1, Ni - 0.

The acute and behavioral effects of a copper-nickel mixture on roach Rutilus rutilus.

Semi-static acute toxicity tests were conducted on adult roach, Rutilus rutilus, to estimate its sensitivity toward an equitoxic binary mixture (EBM) of copper and nickel. The sum of their individual LC50 values was considered to equal 100 %. The main endpoints of the study were mortality and behavioral responses: detection, locomotor activity, coughing rate and pectoral-fin activity.