Toxicity of deltamethrin on total protein of kidney, liver, testis and ovary of air breathing fish Clarias batrachus (Linn.) 

Abstract

The present study includes the biochemical, total protein alterations induced by chronic (30 days) exposure of Clarias batrachus to a sublethal concentrations (0.015 ppm conc.) of deltamethrin on the profile of total protein in the liver, kidney, testis and ovary. The liver, kidney, testis and ovary showed significant depletion of total protein amounting. The present study therefore points towards a severe metabolic dysfunction in response to deltamethrin toxicity in the fish Clarias batrachus (Bloch.).