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Accession number:

447

Host species (latin):

Limanda limanda

Common name:

Dab, Common

Disease/condition:

Macrophage aggregate

Location (host):

Liver

Aetiology:

Non-specific aetiology

Aetiology:

Non-specific aetiology

Additional Information:

Sometimes used as an indicator of non-specific stress in environmental monitoring programmes using fish liver histopathology

Significance:

A normal mechanism for the sequestration of cell degredation products and some metals

Lession:

Liver with numerous macrophage aggregates and vacuolated hepatocytes.

Stains:

Location:

Not recorded

Area:

North Sea

Country:

Submitter:

D. Bucke

Accession date:

9/1/1992

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