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Histochemistry of liver and pancreas in a carp fingerling,Catla catla (Hamilton)

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InCatla fingerlings, the hepatic cells have two types of nuclei—round and oval, and phagocytes similar to those of mammalian liver are present. Histochemical localisation of bile reveals that it is present in the same cells that store glycogen, but bile is not present in all the glycogen-storing hepatic cells.

In pancreas the exocrine and the endocrine portions are completely separate from each other. The acinous exocrine cells lie dispersed in the liver, while the endocrine cells are attached to the intestine. The latter are differentiated into three types—α and β, as in most other vertebrates, and a D-type discovered by the author here, has so far been reported only in higher vertebrates.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Agra College, Agra

    Subhash Chandra Saxena

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Communicated by Prof. B. C. Mahendra,d.sc., f.a.sc., f.a.z.

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Saxena, S.C. Histochemistry of liver and pancreas in a carp fingerling,Catla catla (Hamilton). Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 64, 176–181 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03052145

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