Fish diseases and disorders. Volume 2, Non-infectious disorders /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Fishes > Diseases.; Fishes > Infections.; Animal Immunology, (New March 2000); Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Toxicology and Poisoning of Animals, (New March 2000); Aquaculture (Animals); Aquatic Biology and Ecology.; Pollution and Degradation.; Industrial Wastes and Effluents.; Other Wildlife Diseases, (New March 2000); Toxicology and Poisoning (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Fishes.; Animal pathology.; Animal welfare.; Cardiovascular diseases.; Clinical aspects.; Diagnosis.; Endocrine diseases.; Fish culture.; Fish diseases.; Fish production.; Histopathology.; Immunological diseases.; Metabolic disorders.; Neoplasms.; Nutritional disorders.; Pathogenesis.; Physiopathology.; Poisoning.; Reproductive disorders.; Respiratory diseases.; Toxicity.; Water pollution.; Wild animals.; Electronic books.
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The second edition of this book contains 13 chapters on the clinical signs, pathogenesis, physiopathology and diagnosis of non-infectious diseases of farmed and wild fish, including endocrine, reproductive, developmental, nutritional, metabolic, immunological, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Diagnostic Assessment of Non-infectious Disorders / John F. Leatherland
• Neoplasms and Related Disorders / John M. Grizzle and Andrew E. Goodwin
• Endocrine and Reproductive Systems, Including Their Interaction with the Immune System / John F. Leatherland
• Chemically Induced Alterations to Gonadal Differentiation in Fish / Chris D. Metcalfe, Karen A. Kidd and John P. Sumpter
• Disorders of Development in Fish / Christopher L. Brown, Deborah M. Power and José M. Núñez
• Stress Response and the Role of Cortisol / Mathilakath M. Vijayan, Neelakanteswar Aluru and John F. Leatherland
• Disorders of Nutrition and Metabolism / Santosh P. Lall
• Food Intake Regulation and Disorders / Nicholas J. Bernier
• Immunological Disorders Associated with Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Related Halogenated Aromatic Hydrocarbon Compounds / George E. Noguchi
• Disorders of the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems / Anthony P. Farrell, Paige A. Ackerman and George K. Iwama
• Hydromineral Balance, its Regulation and Imbalances / William S. Marshall
• Disorders Associated with Exposure to Excess Dissolved Gases / David J. Speare
• Welfare and Farmed Fish / Peter Southgate.