[{
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "EFFECTS OF DIETARY SELENIUM NANOPARTICLES SUPPLEMENTATION ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE, HEMATOLOGY AND BODY COMPOSITION OF OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS FINGERLINGS",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Khalid",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Hussain",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Khalid",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Shahzad",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Sharif",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Bashir",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Asrar",
      "given": ""
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [[2023]]
  },
  "container-title": "Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences",
  "ISSN": "1018-7081",
  "volume": "33",
  "issue": "1",
  "page": "33-39",
  "DOI": "https://doi.org/10.36899/JAPS.2023.1.0591",
  "abstract": "<p>Selenium (Se) is an essential nutrient that plays important role in numerous biological processes and fish feed is the major route of Se supply to fish. A 70-days feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of selenium nanoparticles (Se-NPs) on growth, hematology, and body composition of&nbsp;<em>Oreochromis niloticus</em>&nbsp;fingerlings. A total of 270 fingerlings were assigned into 6 treatment groups. Se-NPs (%) were added to formulate six test diets&nbsp;<em>viz.</em>&nbsp;D-0 (control), D-0.1, D-0.2, D-0.3, D-0.4 and D-0.5, respectively and fed to fingerlings under completely randomized design (CRD). Growth parameters such as weight gain % and FCR started to improve (<em>p</em>&le;0.05) when fingerlings were fed on test diet D-0.1 and reached to maximum (229.74%, 1.29) when fish fed on diet D-0.3 as compared to fish fed on control diet (D-0). The values of hematological parameters such as red blood cells (2.90&times;10<sup>6</sup>mm<sup>-3</sup>) and white blood cells (7.89<strong>&times;</strong>10<sup>3</sup>mm<sup>-3</sup>) were found to be the maximum (<em>p</em>&le;0.05) at D-0.3, while hemoglobin (7.95 and 8.47) was found to be improved significantly at D-0.2 and D-0.3, respectively. Similarly, parameters of body composition i.e. crude protein (20.86%) was improved significantly at D-0.3 while crude fat showed non-significant improvement at D-0.2 and D-0.3 (3.10% and 2.17%) respectively as compared to the control diet. Above D-0.3 level, a significant increase was observed. Fat and moisture contents were found to be maximum at control and D-0.5. So, the results suggested that Se-NPs have the potential to improve the fish body composition and are recommended to be used in fish feed at an optimized level.</p>",
  "publisher": "Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum",
  "URL": "https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=AS-21-0021"
}]