title: Changes in blood metabolites following stress from capture and handling of the marine teleost Girella tricuspidata.
abstract: Whole blood nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) and lactate in the parore (Girella tricuspidata, Fam: Kyphosidae) were monitored over a period of 12 hr following capture by gill net. An increase in NTP during the post-capture recovery period was mainly attributable to a significant rise (P less than 0.05) in the NTP component guanosine triphosphate (GTP). The rise in GTP levels correlated with the decline in blood lactate (r = -0.72) accumulated during the period of capture stress. It is suggested that metabolism of lactate via the Krebs cycle may be responsible for the rise in GTP.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Wells
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000097:blood; D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000097:blood*; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000097:blood; D006234:Handling, Psychological; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000032:analysis; D007700:Kinetics; D007773:Lactates / Q000097:blood; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D012265:Ribonucleotides / Q000097:blood*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins; D007773:Lactates; D012265:Ribonucleotides; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate