Table 30. Concentration of free amino acids in skeletal muscle of 

 plaice Pleuroncctes platessa from a reference station at 

 lie Tudy and from oil-polluted Aber Benoit and Aber Wrac'h. 

 n = 5 unless otherwise stated. 



August 1979 (seventeen months after spill) 



FAA Concentration 

 (tiM/g wet weight and standard deviation) 



Amino Acid He Tudj, Aber Benoit 



LYS 0.96 + 0.65 0.64 + 0.33 



HIS 0.97 + 0.66 0.66 + 0.12 



ARG 0.17 + 0.02 + 



TAU 9.28 + 1.22 10.08 + 1.32 



ASP 0.03 + 0.01 + 0.05 + 0.03" 



THR 0.36 + 0.15 0.48 + 0.07 



SER 0.27 + 0.22 0.41 + 0.22 



GLU 0.10 + 0.01 0.18 _ 0.05 + 



PRO 0.50+0.03 + 0.74+0.20 + 



GLY 9.96 _ 3.40 6.57 + 3.14 



ALA 1.67 + 0.81 0.86 + 0.26 



CYS -- 0.18 + 



VAL 



MET 0.03 + 0.04 + 0.39 + 0.53 + 



ILE 0.41 + 0.03 + 0.07 + 0.03 + 



LEU 0.04 + 0.001 + 0.10 + 0.08 + 



TYR 



PHE 



NH, 5.65 + 0.58 5.38 + 2.19 6.34 + 1.27 



Total FAA 24.40 21.39 20.29 



--, Not detected 



' detected in two samples 



detected in one sample 



*» 



significantly different from reference at a = 0.05. 



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