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Physiology of Haemopoiesis

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Fish Physiology: Recent Advances

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Production of new blood cells is called haemopoiesis. From a general point of view this term could also be taken to include the formation of the complex solution of inorganic and organic substances, the plasma, in which the blood cells are suspended. The blood plasma continuously exchanges substances with the tissues. The liver manufactures most of the plasma proteins, but immunoglobulins are produced by plasma cells, widely distributed in the organism, and minor protein components of the plasma such as certain enzymes may be produced by extrahepatic cells or tissues. Lysozyme, a glycosidase with antibacterial activity, is produced by granulocytes and monocytes. Antifreeze glycoproteins, occurring in the plasma of Antarctic fishes at concentrations as high as 3 per cent, are synthesised in the liver (Hudson, De Vries and Haschemeyer 1979). The main plasma proteins of many fishes are albumin and globulins, which are probably produced by the liver, but several fishes are claimed to lack albumin (Sulya, Box and Gunter 1961). One could expect very low colloid osmotic pressures in the blood of those analbuminaemic fishes.

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Fänge, R. (1986). Physiology of Haemopoiesis. In: Nilsson, S., Holmgren, S. (eds) Fish Physiology: Recent Advances. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6558-7_1

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