Plasma Ca2+ concentration limits melatonin night production in two fish species |
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| Authors: | M Gozdowska E Soko&#;owska E Kulczykowska |
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| Institution: | Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Marine Genetics and Biotechnology, św. Wojciecha 5 Str., 81-347 Gdynia, Poland |
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| Abstract: | In freshwater (FW) rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss of spontaneously low plasma calcium concentrations (Ca2+]pl), plasma melatonin at night was significantly lower than that measured in FW fish with the highest Ca2+]pl. In brackish water adapted rainbow trout with originally high Ca2+]pl, plasma melatonin concentration at night was elevated. In cannulated flounder Platichthys flesus , night plasma melatonin increases (ΔMel) corresponded to Ca2+]pl. It is postulated that in physiological steady-state conditions, melatonin synthesis capacity is coupled to free calcium concentration in plasma of O. mykiss and P. flesus . |
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| Keywords: | flounder melatonin Oncorhynchus mykiss plasma Ca2+ Platichthys flesus rainbow trout |
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