Effects of dietary zinc intake upon copper metabolism in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) |
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Authors: | David Knox Colin B. Cowey John W. Adron |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Marine Biochemistry, St. Fittick''s Road, Torry, Aberdeen, AB1 3RA Great Britain |
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Abstract: | Purified diets with copper levels of 2.5 and 500 mg/kg and dietary zinc levels ranging from 34 to 1000 mg/kg were fed for 20 weeks to rainbow trout of mean initial weight 8 g. Growth and feed conversion were similar in all groups of fish and no gross pathologies were observed. Liver copper levels were greatest in trout given the high copper diets; increasing dietary zinc intake reduced these hepatic copper concentrations. Subcellular fractionation of the livers showed that in all groups of trout 70–80% of the hepatic copper was present in the nuclear and mitochondrial fractions. In contrast, the cytosol and microsomal fractions contained, on average, 73% of the liver zinc. Total liver superoxide dismutase activity was constant in all groups of fish. However, in trout fed the high copper diets the relative proportions of the copper-zinc and the manganese superoxide dismutase were correlated with the dietary zinc intake. Increasing dietary zinc reduced the activity of the manganese enzyme and increased that of the copper-zinc metalloenzyme. |
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