Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Fawole Olubanjo Olatunde, currently working at Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. The area of interest in the research was Environmental Biology, Entomology, Biotechnology, Cell Biology. The number of articles published are 03 and the number of times cited by, are 18.
Research Article
Histological Aberrations in Selected Organs of two Clariids Species obtained from Asa River, Nigeria
Author(s): Ogundiran Mathew Akinloye*, Fawole Olubanjo Olatunde and Ajala Olumuyiwa Olasunmibo
Gross impact of water pollution and water borne pollutants on aquatic organisms and man has become a great
concern to public health in the recent time. Since fish gills are indirect contact with the environmental medium
and are very sensitive to changes in water quality while fish liver serves as gate-keeper to the entire body of fish.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of pollutants from the polluted Asa River on the gills
and liver histology of Clarias buthupogon and Heterobranchus longifilis. The sample included a total of 55 individuals
(28 for C. buthupogon and 27 for H. longifilis). There was a recorded moderate to intense alterations of gill tissues.
The most notable alterations were congestion of blood vessels, desquamation, swelling of pillar cell, hyperplasia and
hypertrophy of the gill.. View more»