Response of blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris (Perez-Farfante & Kensley, 1997) to dietary cadaverine supplementation

Abstract

Recent studies on salmon and shrimp have shown that reduced feed intake and growth caused by the consumption of low-quality ¢sh meals, manufactured from spoiled ¢sh, were not due to the presence of biogenic amines. Moreover, an improvement in weight gain was seen in blue shrimp fed a diet supplemented with cadaverine plus histamine. It was not clear, however, if this e¡ect was due to the consumption of histamine or cadaverine. The objective of the current experiment was to investigate the e¡ect of dietary cadaverine supplementation on growth parameters and various amine concentrations in tissues of the blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris. Six experimental diets were supplemented with cadaverine at 0, 500, 1100, 2300, 3500 and 4600 mg kg À1 and tested in a feeding trial lasting 28 days. Feed consumption, feed conversion ratio, survival and weight gain were not a¡ected by the concentration of dietary cadaverine. The dietary supplementation of cadaverine, however, resulted in a linear increase in cadaverine concentration in shrimp tissues, especially in the hepatopancreas. It was concluded that dietary cadaverine does not have any e¡ect on growth and feed intake of shrimp. Growth promotion, as reported previously in shrimp fed a diet supplemented with histamine plus cadaverine, was probably due to histamine or a combined e¡ect of histamine plus cadaverine but not due to dietary cadaverine alone. It seems that shrimp have a limited ability to metabolize cadaverine, which then accumulates intact in shrimp tissues.

Effect of dietary histamine supplementation on growth, digestive enzyme activities and morphology of intestine and hepatopancreas in the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis

“…In rabbits, histamine (10 −3 M) was found to stimulate pancreatic trypsinogen secretion from in vitro isolated rabbit pancreas preparations, but high concentrations (10 −2 M) of histamine are not unlike (Liebow and Franklin 1982 ). A similar effect of histamine was also found in the growth of blue shrimp (Tapia-Salazar et al 2004 ), immunity of crabs (Zhao et al 2012 ) and liver function of rabbits (Tripathi et al 2012 ). In these animals, the maximum effect of histamine is not the highest concentration but the lower concentration.…”

“…Therefore, different animals may have their own special sensitivity to different level of histamine. Some researchers reported that high mortalities have been observed in poultry and mysis with dietary histamine supplementation (Harry et al 1975 ; Osuna 1985 ; Yang et al 2010 ), while histamine supplementation had no influence on shrimp and rainbow trout mortality (Fairgrieve et al 1998 ; Tapia-Salazar et al 2004 ), what’s more, histamine improves survival of mice (Hornyak et al 2005 ). Similar species differences in sensitivity to histamine have been demonstrated by mammals in studying gastric acid and pepsinogen secretion (Liebow and Franklin 1982 ), but no explanation was found for a correlation between histamine and sensitivity among species.…”

“…When fed diets supplemented with histamine at 2 g/kg, a decline in feed consumption in the rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) occurred (Fairgrieve et al 1998 ). Whereas dietary histamine supplementation at 0.6–4.8 g/kg had no negative effects on feed consumption and feed conversion ratio in the blue shrimp ( Litopenaeus stylirostris ) (Tapia-Salazar et al 2004 ). The divergence may be due to the varying ability of dietary histamine digestion among aquatic animals.…”

Feed preference and growth response of juvenile Litopenaeus vannamei to supplementation of marine chemoattractants in a fishmeal‐challenged diet

“…They found that cadaverine at 2,000 mg/kg in a diet with 5% fishmeal acts as a good attractant. Tapia‐Salazar, Smith, Harris, Cruz‐Suárez, and Ricque‐Marie () worked with the blue shrimp, L. stylirostris , of 50 to 108 mg initial BW. They evaluated the dietary supplementation of cadaverine (0, 500, 1,100, 2,300, 3,500, and 4,600 mg/kg) for 28 days in 10‐L fiberglass tanks.…”

Chemoattractants: Their essentiality and efficacy in shrimp aquaculture

“…However, Mendoza et al (1997) reported that even 0.2% of cadaverine acted as a potential attractant in Macrobrachium rosenbergii fed a diet containing 5% fishmeal. But, later Tapia-Salazar et al (2004) in L. stylirostris, failed to show a similar effect even after supplementing 0.46% of cadaverine. However, when it was supplemented with histamine it showed an enhanced growth performance in the species.…”