Table 32 . Concentration of free amino acids in skeletal muscle of plaice 

 Plcuronectes platcvsa from a reference station at lie Tudy and 

 from oil-polluted Aber Benoit and Aber Wrac'h. n = 8 to 10 unless 

 otherwise stated. 



June 1980 (twenty-seven months after spill) 



FAA Concentration 



(uM/g wet weight and standard deviation) 



Amino Acid He Tudy Aber Benoit Aber Wrac'h 



--, not detected 



NA, not analyzed 

 * 

 ' significantly different from reference at a = 0.05 



' number of samples in which amino acid was detected. 



LYS 0.34+0.30 0.63+0.52 1.05+0.32* 



HIS 0.29 + 0.13 1.39 + 0.63* 1 .87 jf 0.46* 

 ARG 



TAU 16.92+3.96 12.37+3.63 11.81+2.30* 



ASP 0.13 + Q.}A{7) } 0.08+0.03 0.06+0.02 



THR 0.33+0.17 0.87+0.37 0.77+0.35 



SER 0.80+0.32 0.59+0.38 0.63+0.37 



GLU 0.26+0.19 0.25+0.08 0.19+0.06 



PRO 0.24+0.28 1.73+2.34(9) 2.30+2.33(9) 



GLY 2.50+2.08 14.65+6.95* 8.77+4.52* 



ALA 2.26+0.60 1.28+0.43* 1.07+0.32* 

 CYS 



V AL 0.34+0.37(3) 0.15+0.02(6) 0.16+0.02(6) 



MET 0.15+0.08 0.12+0.02(9) 0.14+0.06(9) 



ILE 0.12+0.18 0.08+0.04 0.09+0.02(8) 



LEU 0.16+0.25 0.16+0.05 0.16+0.03(7) 



TYR 



PHE 



NH 3 NA NA MA 



Total FAA 24.84 35.37 29.07 



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