Specimens of the newt, Triturus cristatus carnifex (Laurenti), rendered totally anemic, restore erythron by cyclic waves of erythropoietic activity that alternate with intervals of stasis. Hemolysis is obtained by administering 25 mg/liter of acetylphenylhydrazine in the breeding water for 36 h. The
Periodic changes in the organs involved in the erythropoiesis of anemic newts
โ Scribed by Frangioni, Giuliano ;Borgioli, Gianfranco
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 718 KB
- Volume
- 243
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-104X
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โฆ Synopsis
In Triturus cristatus carnifa aaurenti) newts rendered totally anemic by treatment with acetylphenylhydrazine (APH) diluted in their tank water (25 mgfliter for 48 hours, with four changes) the recovery of erythron occurs through periodic cycles of mitotic activity in the erythropoietic tissue. These cycles determine a marked increase in blood erythrocyte concentration at regular intervals of about 1 month. The consequence of this trend is the alternation of ferritin and hemosiderin accumulation phases during periods of stasis with iron mobilization phases during periods of erythropoietic activity, which is particularly evident in the Kupffer cells of the liver. Iron mobilization and erythropoietic activity are strictly related to the periodic hypertrophy of some Bowman's capsule cells in the renal corpuscle, which
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