Liver Pigment Cells of the Green Frog (Pelophylax Esculentus Complex) Are Involved in Hematopoiesis and Liver Parenchyma Repair.

Abstract

The article examines the factors inuencing hematopoiesis in the liver of green frogs under conditions of anthropogenic pollution. For this, the experiment compared the indicators of animals from groups with maximum and minimum signs of the liver damage taken from a contaminated biotope. It has been shown that there are no differences between the groups in the indices of hematoposis, but there are signicant differences in the content of pigments in the liver. Also, signicant correlations were found between the amount of pigments and indicators of erythropoiesis and myelopoiesis. It was concluded that the reserves of pigments in the liver of frogs are involved in compensatory reactions.