%0 Journal Article %T Effects of starvation and re-feeding on some hematological and plasma biochemical parameters of juvenile Persian sturgeon ,Acipenser persicus Borodin, 1897 %J Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences %I University of Guilan %Z 1735-3033 %A Yarmohammadi, M. %A Pourkazemi, M. %A Kazemi, R. %A Pourdehghani, M. %A Hassanzadeh Saber, M. %A Azizzadeh, L. %D 2015 %\ 06/01/2015 %V 13 %N 2 %P 129-140 %! Effects of starvation and re-feeding on some hematological and plasma biochemical parameters of juvenile Persian sturgeon ,Acipenser persicus Borodin, 1897 %K Acipenser persicus %K Starvation %K Physiology %K Biochemistry %K Hematology %K Compensatory growth %R %X The effect of starvation and re-feeding was investigated on growth, hematology and biochemical parameters in juvenile Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus). Three hundred and seventyfive fish (108±0.63 g) were divided into five feeding groups. The control group (C) was fed to satiation three times a day during the experiment. The four groups were starved for 1 (W1), 2 (W2), 3 (W3), and 4 (W4) weeks respectively, and then fed to satiation during a 4 week re-feeding period.The results indicated that some parameters including final weight, specific growth rate, body weight increase, plasma enzymes (ALT, Alanine aminotransferase, AST, Aspartat aminotransferase and ALP, Alkaline phosphatase(, hematological parameters [Mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH)]were significantly affected by feeding regimes. The plasma cortisol, hematocrit, lymphocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, and monocytes were not affected by starvation and subsequent re-feeding. These findings showed that short term starvations had no significant negative effects on growth performance, most biochemical and hematological parameters in Persian sturgeon couldrecover when re-feeding resumed. %U https://cjes.guilan.ac.ir/article_1280_83ee9e04321e1ca0acb07f6faa3cc52c.pdf