Influence of some medicinal plants as antimycotoxins in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) diets [electronic resource].

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This study was conducted to investigate the toxic effects of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings and attempting to detoxify these drastic effects by using some medicinal plants. Therefore, half percent of each of these medicinal plants namely; Black seed, Liquorices, Garlic meal, Onion meal, Fenugreek seeds, and Cinnamon were added to aflatoxin (150 ppb aflatoxin B1) diet for fingerlings. These diets were offered 6 days a week at 3% daily of actual biomass in glass aquaria in duplicate / treatment in an indoor feeding experiment lasted 15 weeks. The aflatoxic diet led to the worst fish growth performance and survival rate, feed and protein utilization, carcass composition and residues of AFB1(ppb) in the whole body of fish and the tested parameters of blood hematology and biochemistry of the experimented fish. Dietary black seed and cinnamon inclusion alleviated aflatoxicosis symptoms by fish, since it improved all the above tested parameters of aflatoxicated fish. Generally, the obtained results in the present study indicated that the black seeds and cinnamon was the best detoxifying agent of aflatoxin, followed by fenugreek seeds, onion, garlic, and liquorices respectively.

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