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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-6-5
pubmed:abstractText
Mature and intact red blood cells were found in hepatocytes of frogs during natural underground hibernation. No signs of erythrophagocytosis, e.g., separating membranes between erythrocyte and hepatocyte cytoplasm, and lysosomes, were observed. Red blood cells probably penetrated into hepatocytes by ameboid-like mechanisms, which can be deduced by cytoplasmic protrusions and invaginations. Most of the hepatocytes had large amounts of stored glycogen and few organelles, often segregated in condensed areas. The narrowed bile canalicular lumens without lysosomes and exocytotic vacuoles around them and the reduction of the Disse spaces indicate a low metabolic activity of liver during natural hibernation. The dramatic accumulation of red cells in the hepatocytes of hibernating frogs could share similarities with the phenomenon of internalization of leucocytes into epithelial cells of some vertebrate's tissues via emperipolesis, the mechanisms of which are not well understood.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-104X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
258
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
143-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Internalization of erythrocytes into liver parenchymal cells in naturally hibernating frogs (Rana esculenta L.).
pubmed:affiliation
Istituto di Fisiologia Generale e Chimica Biologica, Universita di Sassari, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't