• Dr. Pratibha Pathak
• Ajay Kumar Anand

The current study performed the examine the alterations induced by chronic (30 days) exposure of the fish Heteropneutes fossilis to a sublethal concentrations (0.25 ppm conc.) of mercuric chloride on the profile of total blood metabolites. The experimental fish become hyperglyceric as evident by a highly significant (p < 0.001) elevated level of glucose in the blood, which counts to an increase of 28.53% and the serum cholesterol has been found to significantly increase by 13.07% showed hypercholestrolemic response as evident by significant (p< 0.05) increase while protein level depleted 37.93%. The present study therefore points towards a severe metabolic dysfunction in response to mercuric chloride toxicity in the fish Heteropneutes fossilis (Bloch.).

Heteropneutes fossilis, Mercuric chloride , blood metabolites, total serum protein.

"Biochemical changes of mercuric chloride on blood metabolite levels of freshwater Fish Heteropneutes fossilis (Bloch.)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no.303-311, November-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011176.pdf

"Biochemical changes of mercuric chloride on blood metabolite levels of freshwater Fish Heteropneutes fossilis (Bloch.)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no. pp303-311, November-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011176.pdf