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The structure of the liver cells during the life cycle of a brook-lamprey (Lampetra zanandreai)

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From the cytological point of view the liver of the ammocoetes is comparable to the liver of other vertebrates. In the species of lamprey studied (L.zanandreai), metamorphosis marks the beginning of a period of fasting and sexual maturation, during which atrophy of the digestive system occurs. During this period the liver undergoes a complete transformation, that is particularly evident at the ultrastructural level, and results in bile stasis. Bile pigments, and together with them a considerable quantity of ferritin, become concentrated within large dense bodies. Despite their enormous increase in volume and morphological variability, these bodies retain some structural and cytochemical characteristics, i.e., the affinity of their limiting membrane for phosphotungstic acid and the presence of acid phosphatase activity, that justify their identification as transformed lysosomes.

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Bertolini, B. The structure of the liver cells during the life cycle of a brook-lamprey (Lampetra zanandreai). Zeitschrift für Zellforschung 67, 297–318 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339377

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