The Effects of Heart and Skeletal Muscle Inflammation and Cardiomyopathy Syndrome on Creatine Kinase and Lactate Dehydrogenase Levels in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.)

Figure 2

The box plots of (a) creatine kinase (CK) and (b) lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) enzymes activity values in the serum/plasma of Atlantic salmon for all seven groups (𝑁=173). Group 1 (𝑛=28) and group 2 (𝑛=16) represented fish from an acute and late phase of a HSMI outbreak, respectively, while group 3 (𝑛=31) represented values from fish from an early phase of HSMI. Group 4 (𝑛=30) included chronic CMS fish. Group 5 (𝑛=28), group 6 (𝑛=20), and group 7 (𝑛=20) represented values from nondiseased fish. Bars with different letters represented significant differences between groups (𝑃<0.05). (∘) denotes outliers.

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