A CASE STUDY OF LIPID CONTENT IN THE BRAIN OF CIRRHINA MRIGALA AND LABEO ROHITA FROM RAJARAM TANK NEAR SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY KOLHAPUR, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
Keywords:
Neutral Lipid, Phospholipid, TLC technique, Bioassay techniqueAbstract
Neutral lipids (NL) and phospholipids (PL) with their constituents were studied in brain of Cirrhina mrigala and Labeo rohita, by employing TLC and Bioassay technique . The total lipid in the brain of Labeo rohita is 24.14 mg lipids / gm , increase to 127.9 mg lipids / gm in the brain of Cirrhina mrigala . The ratio of cholesterol and phosphotidylcholine in the same species is 5:1 and 4:1 respectively
Neutral lipids consists of six components , triacylglycerol being main component . Cholesterol (CHO) , Diacylglycerol (DG) , Cholesterol-ester (CE) , and Monoacylglycerol (MG) were moderate in concentration . Free fatty acids (FFA) was low in quantity . Phospholipids exhibits seven constituents , Phosphatidylcholine (PCL) and phophatidyl - ethanolamine (PE) were major constituents , sphingomyelin (SPG) , phosphatidyl - inositol (PI) and phosphatidyl- serine (PS) were moderate in concentration . Lysophosphatidylcholine ( LPC) were low in quantity