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Asian Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2011 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 272-276
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S. Bragadeeswaran

S. Thangaraj

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Hemolytic and Antibacterial Studies on Skin Mucus of Eel Fish, Anguilla anguilla Linnaues, 1758

S. Bragadeeswaran and S. Thangaraj
Eel fish, Anguilla anguilla skin contains specialised glandular cells that produce mucins and substance with antimicrobial and noxious properties. In the present study, Anguilla anguilla was collected from Parangipattai coastal waters of Tamil Nadu, India. The crude and aqueous extract of mucus was studied for hemolytic assay on chicken blood and goat blood, antibacterial activity against shrimp culture pond pathogens viz., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vibrio parahemolyticus, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aerius, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, Klebsiella pneumonia, Klebsiella oxytoca, Proteous microbilus and Lactobacillus vulgaris. The maximum specific hemolytic unit of 16 HU was recorded in chicken blood and minimum of 2 HU against goat blood. Whereas the antibacterial activity, maximum zone of inhibition 10 mm and minimum of 1 mm were showed in Salmonella paratyphi and Staphylococcus aerius, respectively. This present study has revealed that preliminary assays indicated that eel fish mucus was an interesting source for hemolytic and antibacterial activity.
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S. Bragadeeswaran and S. Thangaraj, 2011. Hemolytic and Antibacterial Studies on Skin Mucus of Eel Fish, Anguilla anguilla Linnaues, 1758. Asian Journal of Biological Sciences, 4: 272-276.

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