TY - CHAP
T1 - Histopathological indicators in fish for assessing environmental stress
AU - Ruiz-Picos, Ricardo Arturo
AU - López-López, Eugenia
AU - Sedeño-Díaz, Jacinto Elías
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - We present the usefulness of histological and histopathological techniques as tools for evaluation of fish health. Stress at the individual level is frequently presented in the form of tissue damage and we are interested in the study of this level as a health indicator, since it is intermediate between the biochemical and reproductive levels. In addition, we analyzed two case studies conducted using the viviparous fish Goodea atripinnis, the first about the health status by size class of the fish species in the Yuriria Lake, which is affected by a complex mixture of xenobiotics from agriculture, industry, and wastewater, and the second about chronic exposure to a herbicide based on glyphosate. In both cases, various anomalies were found in the liver (fibrosis, cellular disorganization, hemorrhages and vacuoles, pyknosis, and cell lysis), and gills (lamellar fusion, sloughing, hypertrophy, hyperplasia, and leukocyte infiltration). Both studies demonstrated the utility of fish as sentinel organisms and histopathological analysis as a useful tool in environmental biomonitoring to detect early warning signals in aquatic environments.
AB - We present the usefulness of histological and histopathological techniques as tools for evaluation of fish health. Stress at the individual level is frequently presented in the form of tissue damage and we are interested in the study of this level as a health indicator, since it is intermediate between the biochemical and reproductive levels. In addition, we analyzed two case studies conducted using the viviparous fish Goodea atripinnis, the first about the health status by size class of the fish species in the Yuriria Lake, which is affected by a complex mixture of xenobiotics from agriculture, industry, and wastewater, and the second about chronic exposure to a herbicide based on glyphosate. In both cases, various anomalies were found in the liver (fibrosis, cellular disorganization, hemorrhages and vacuoles, pyknosis, and cell lysis), and gills (lamellar fusion, sloughing, hypertrophy, hyperplasia, and leukocyte infiltration). Both studies demonstrated the utility of fish as sentinel organisms and histopathological analysis as a useful tool in environmental biomonitoring to detect early warning signals in aquatic environments.
KW - Chronic exposure
KW - Gill and liver damages
KW - Histopathological analyses
KW - Target tissues
KW - Tissue damage
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84943600179&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-017-9499-2_38
DO - 10.1007/978-94-017-9499-2_38
M3 - Capítulo
SN - 9789401794985
SP - 663
EP - 675
BT - Environmental Indicators
PB - Springer Netherlands
ER -