Nitin Anandrao Kamble

Shivaji University · Department of Zoology

Among all the biological processes in the living organisms, reproduction is a important life process for survival and continuation of every race and species on the earth. Present study was designed to investigate the effect of Paclobutrazol on the reproductive system of terrestrial slug Semperula maculata. The animals were exposed for pre-determine...

Disodium 5' Ribonucleotide (E635), a food additive, has FDA safety, but concerns about its potential toxicity in developmental biology have been raised due to limited research on its lethal effects. The present research aimed to investigate the lethal dose of E635 when induced into a vertebrate chick embryo model. Pilot doses of E635 ranging from 1...

Enzymes as biocatalyst regulate the rate of physiological process and occupy central role in health and also has critical role in diseased conditions. Enzymes are involved in number of physiological reactions from simple digestion of food proteins to highly regulated cascades. Digestive enzyme like proteases can either break specific peptide bonds,...

: Survivability of animals is correlated with their fecundity and fertility success. Widespread use of enormous organic and inorganic ingredients as pesticides, molluscicides and insecticides contaminate ecosystems leading to hazardous effects on the life cycle of animals, their biological processes and reproduction. Present work aimed for toxicity...

Pollution is one of the undesirable side effects of increased industrialization, generally responsible for aquatic contamination. Heavy metals are major pollutants released into the environment. Biotoxicity of these metals against enzyme reactivity provides information about animal’s health. Present investigation deals with intoxication of pre-dete...

In the developing country like India, direct discharge of domestic and industrialization waste in aquatic bodies, contaminate of water bodies and proved to have undesirable side effects. Sensitive animals were get victimized by domestic as well as industrial pollution. Freshwater molluscs reported as linked component of the aquatic ecosystem. By co...

Through number of sources metals get released into the environment and found responsible for the contamination of media and animals living in it. Biotoxicity, bioconcentration, accumulation and magnification of any metals provides information about its toxic impact and stress formed on animal’s health. Present investigation relates with toxicity of...

Reproduction is physiological mechanism to show the regenerative potency among the animals. Present work focus on reproductive and regenerative potency in selected molluscan species under maintained laboratory conditions. Molluscs were selected for differences with their special accent on mode of fecundity, fertilization, embryological development...

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is most used food additive in recent days, commonly known as ajinomoto. Under present investigation, we observed effect of MSG dose against some selected organs from experimental animal. We divided animals in 5 groups as control group, 3 weeks group, 6 weeks group, 9 weeks group and 12 weeks group. Each group contained 6...

Freshwater bodies get polluted by number of pollutants released from different sources including industrial effluents, municipal wastes, garbage"s, sewage pollutants and agricultural wastes also. Contaminant like heavy metals, chemicals and pesticides directly or indirectly comes into food chain with increased concentration. Mixing of pollutants in...

A total of 13 freshwater species belonging to the 10 genera 04 orders and seven families were noticed during the investigation. A new record of the molluscan species Physa acuta was also assessed from the study region. Assessed checklist describes the abundance of the freshwater molluscan species at the Panchganga River. However, regional populatio...

The development of any state or society depends largely on the quality of health education. Regular physical activity, fitness and exercise are critically important for the health and well being of people of all ages. India in a process of rapid economic development and modernization with changing lifestyle factors has an increasing trend of hypert...

Deterioration of water quality became challenging task before the scientific community. The only reliable way to counteract with this dreadful problem of water pollution is periodical monitoring of aquatic resources by means of evaluating its physical and chemical properties. Krishna River, Sangli is considered as one of the sacred and second large...

Molluscs as a second largest phyla includes snails, slugs, clams, oysters, scallops, cuttlefish, squid and octopus. Present study revealed, diversity of molluscan fauna from three sites i.e Khanderajuri lake, Mhaishal lake and Krishna river in the period of January, 2011 to December, 2013. Among collected molluscs 10 species were identified from se...

Since last few decades, terrestrial diversity is found to be under stress due to the contamination by various chemicals and gases of aquatic and agricultural media. The bioaccumulation of these compounds at certain concentrations in different tissues produces histopathological changes leading to behavioral changes in target animals. The present stu...

Krishna river is the major lotic system and has human interference through emersion of idols, irrigation, domestic use, discharge of sewage, sand dredging, etc. by which water quality get changed. Assessment of temperature, pH, total alkalinity, turbidity, chloride, hardness, Carbon dioxide, dissolved oxygen, calcium, phosphate, total solids and to...

Water current plays vital role in the development of an aquatic ecosystem. It performs various activities in the aquatic media, which in turns replenish the nutrients and alter biotic conditions of the water bodies. In order to elucidate the exact role of water current on life of aquatic fauna, present investigation was carried out. Members of phyl...

Central nervous system (CNS) of gastropods is extensively studied for its pathology and immunocytology; there is scanty information on histochemical alterations in neuronal cells due to heavy metal. This study was designed to investigate histochemical alterations in cerebral neurons of freshwater snail Bellamya bengalensis after intoxication with m...

Day by day aquatic ecosystems has put forth challenging environment for florishment of aquatic flora and fauna, due to huge deterioration of water quality. Contamination of water by natural and anthropogenic activities was continued, since beginning of human development. Now days, rendering water quality and pollution of aquatic ecosystems become g...

For survival of living organisms, all must have to adjust with changing physical and chemical conditions of the environment. Present study revealed with seasonal analysis of various physico-chemical parameters from six water bodies, subjected to physico-chemical analysis during December, 2012 to November, 2013. Physicochemical parameters like pH, T...

Physicochemical features of freshwater bodies were regulated by number of factors. It includes temperature, turbidity, pH, total alkalinity, carbondioxide, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, phosphate, chloride and hardness. Present study focused on the determination of hydrobiological parameters during different se...

Malaco fauna is the second largest and richest fauna after insect. It is globally distributed and acquired every possible niche of the planet earth except aerial one. It has numerous economic characteristics, amongst which bioindication is remarkdly important. Numbers of molluscan species were utilized world widely as biomonitoring agents, because...

Planktons forms a remarkable bioindicator for water pollution. Planktonic quantification from four sites of Hiranyakeshi river, Gadhinglaj tahsil, were assessed for seasonal variations. Phytoplankton as Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta, Bacillariophyta and Euglenophyta were found major groups. Comparative data related to abundance of species showed that, me...

Quantitative assessment of plankton was carried out in distinct sites of the river Krishna, district Sangli during January 2011 to December 2012. Phytoplankton diversity was observed in five groups, that is, Cyanophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Desmidiceae including 53 species. Among them, Chlorophyceae was dominatin...

River water is the reliable source of freshwater, which forms the basis of life for variety of creatures. Good water quality of river satisfies the basic need of these organisms. Now day’s due to the continuous water contamination, deterioration of water quality is becomes the serious concern in front of mankind. However, amongst these aquatic cont...

Study was designed to investigate chronic effect of temperature (at 39 ºC, 41 ºC and 43 ºC) on histopathological features of testicular cells in Rattus norvegicus. Experimental setup was designed as control and experimental sets. After completion of five weeks exposure period, experimental animals were sacrificed for qualitative and quantitative an...

The freshwater molluscs and crustaceans constitute an important component of the ecosystem. The freshwater crab Baritelphusa cunicularis and Bivalve parreysia corrugata found important component of freshwater ecosystem. Proteins proved versatile macromolecules in living system and served to run biological processes. Immune system of invertebrate mu...

Reproduction has vital role to maintain the biodiversity and ecobalance in nature. In present investigation major physico-chemical parameters like chloride, sodium, COD, TS, TDS and SS has induces histopathology of oocytes in crab Barytelphusa cunicularis. In which, ovary showed disturbed epithelial layer with degenerated oocytes. Vacuolization was...

Aquatic organisms are susceptible to contamination of organic and inorganic discharge. Physico-chemical parameters as Temperature, Phosphate and contamination of heavy metals like Fe + , Na + and K + has direct or indirect impact over the metabolic content of targeted cells. Altered physico-chemical parameters influences gametogenic mechanism of cr...

We measured the immunoreactivity of the neuropeptide gastrin cholecystokinin 8 (gastrin/CCK 8) in neurons of the terrestrial slug Semperula maculata following acute treatment with mercuric chloride (HgCl2). The distribution of gastrin/CCK 8 was analyzed in neurons of different regions, specifically from cerebral ganglia (procerebrum (pro-c), mesoce...

Mercuric (Hg) and zinc (Zn) chloride toxicity was investigated in cerebroneuronal cells and gills of Bellamya bengalensis using sublethal concentrations under lab conditions. Freshwater snail B. bengalensis was exposed to mean LC50 concentration (1.56 ppm and 12.7 ppm) of Hg and Zn chloride, respectively. Bioaccumulation of Hg and Zn was observed i...

Phylum mollusca comprise diverse kind of animals, which are able to live on every possible habitat present on the planet earth, except aerial one. Due to such a wide distribution all over the world, these animals showed highly evolved or specialized body characters. Adaptations made in the body characters of these animals made them fully efficient...

Carbohydrate polymers with acid-base properties of extracellular matrix (ECM) have a critical impact on guidance, migration and synaptic transmission. The present study showed acid-base properties of ECM stained with histochemical techniques. The central nervous system (CNS) of mature terrestrial slug Semperula maculata and freshwater bivalve Lamel...

The present study was designed to investigate the neuropathological effect of mercuric chloride in relation to physiological response on terrestrial slug Semperula maculata using topical application technique (contact action). Lethal concentration (predetermined LC50 value-107 ppm) of HgCl2 was used and experiment lasted for 4 days. His top ath olo...

Although the central nervous system (CNS) of gastropods has been used as a model for studying neurocommunications and related immunohistochemical studies, there is scanty information on histochemical alterations in neuronal cells due to metal pollution. This study was designed to investigate neuronal alterations in cerebral ganglia intoxicated with...