Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T09:29:47.962Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

About the possibility of iron absorption by fishes and its pathological action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2011

J. A. Machado Cruz
J. A. Machado Cruz*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto - Portugal
Get access

Abstract

1. Iron, when absorbed in large quantities by the digestive tract of fishes, can produce in various organs internal lesions which can be histologically and histochemically detected.

2. These lesions are sufficient to lead to death.

3. Such lesions are very similar to those found either in iron-poisoned human beings or in mammals iron-poisoned for experimental purposes.

4. To the above lesions is added, for fishes a more or less pronounced degeneration of the branchial epithelium.

Type
Research Article
Information
Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 1969 , pp. 187 - 193
Copyright
© Masson, 1969

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)