Table 7.5 Adrenocortical steroids in the blood of fishes
Cortisol
Corticosterone
O ther
Osteichthyes
Chondrichthyes
Protopte rus aethiopicus!
(African lungfish)
Actinopterygii
Chondrostei
Holostei
Tcl eostei
Salrno gairdneri"
(Rainbow trout)
Anguilla angu illa 5
(Eel)
Fundulus beteroclitusr
(Killifish)
Cyprinus carpio". 7
(Carp)
+
+ ': .,:.,:. ,
?
+
+
+
+
+
+
Cortisone
Cortisone
Chondrichthyes
Rai« radiata". 9
(starry ray)
Squalus acanthias'". t1
(Spiny dogfish)
Hydrolagu s colliei'"
(Ratfi sh)
Carcharbinus' ", 12
(Sharks)
Agnatha
Petrornyzon marinus'i, I :}
(Sea lamprey)
Eptatretus stouti' 2
(Pacific hagfish)
Myxine glutinosa'". 14
(Atlantic hagfish)
trace
trace
1a-hydroxycorticosterone': '
+ ': .
aldosterone': '
1a-hydroxycorticosterone
+ , : .
aldosterone': '
+
+
I a-hydroxycorticosterone':'
? + or? + or+
+
? + or? + or': . in vitro tissue incubation ':': . see IDLER and SANGALANG (J . Endocrin. 48: 627, 1970) .
TRUSCOTT and IDLER (1968) have shown that the interrenal tissues from eleven species of the
Chondrichthyes mainly produced 10.-hydroxycorticosterone during in vitro incubation.
References : IPHILLIPS and CHESTER JONES (1957) ; 2J ANSSENS et al. (1965) ; ~H A NE and
ROBERTSON (1959); 4NANDl and BERN (1965); 5LELOUp-H ATEY (1964); 6CHESTER JONES et al.
(1959); 7BONDY, UPTON, and PICKFORD (1957); SI DLER and TRUSCOTT (1968) ; IOBERN, DERoos,
and B1GLIERI (1962); IlTRUSCOTT and IDLER (1968); 12PHILLIPS (1959); 13WEISBART and IDLER
(1970); PHILLIPS et al. (1962 b) .
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