COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF CINNAMALDEHYDE AND CONCANAVALIN A ON HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND MARKER ENZYMES IN GOLD FISH (Carassius auratus)

Chettancherry Somasundaram Parameswari*, Dayana Janakiraman and Usha

ABSTRACT

Immunostimulants from plant origin are emerging into pharmacological field to serve as a novel drug candidate to - enhance the longevity, productivity, stress combating potential, strength to fight against invading external agents such as pathogens, bacteria, virus etc of fishes., with minimal toxic side effects to serve pharmacologists, aqua culturists, marine biologists. The Hematological parameters, cardiac, hepatic and nephritic marker enzymes suggest the basic immunomodulatory nature as well as non-toxic nature of the compound. In the present study, the stimulatory as well non-toxic nature of Cinnamaldehyde was analysed.

Keywords: Gold fish, Hematological parameters, Immunostimulation, non-toxic.