Please help me to find the importance of Lymphocyte in fish and its range in normal and diseased fish.
Hi Amit,
I just read a couple of papers that may be of interest to you, which you can access easily. The importance of lymphocytes as a part of the immune system appears to be related to stress levels--high stress levels are generally associated with lower lymphocyte levels and can act as part of the immune defence of fish. I once worked on a field study on the effects of different handling techniques on Pacific salmon, and a centrifuge was used to look at the volume differences to examine which handling type was associated with less stress. However, the ranges for normal and diseased fish would likely be taxonomically related. Likely this would also be related to the time they have been around--for example,hagfishes, cartilagenous fishes (sharks, etc.), and teleosts are likely to have different 'normal' levels as they have different evolutionay histories.
One paper available on Research Gate is: Functional Aspects of Fish Lymphocytes by Giuseppe Scapigliati
Another paper which covers vertebrates, including fish, with some good references to other works is: The use of leukocyte profiles to measure stress in vertebrates: a review for ecologists by Davis et al. 2008. I was able to access this one freely on the web.
Hope this helps,
Shawn Booth
Thank you so much for adding answer to my query. I will see those papers and return back to you for later conversation.
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