author(s)
Mala Kumari

abstract
Deltamethrin belongs to a group of pesticides called synthetic pyrethroids. The present study includes the biochemical, total protein alterations induced by chronic (30 days) exposure of Clarias batrachus to a sublethal concentrations (0.015 ppm conc.) of deltamethrin on the profile of total protein in the liver, kidney, testis and ovary. The liver, kidney, testis and ovary showed significant depletion of total protein amounting and depletion of the present study therefore points towards a severe metabolic dysfunction in response to deltamethrin toxicity in the fish Clarias batrachus (Bloch.).