[The effect of polar shark liver fat on the histology of rat internal organs]

Vopr Pitan. 2002;71(6):35-7.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

One month keeping of rats on a diet with 23% fat extracted from a polar shark liver, causes not sharply pronounced fatty infiltration of liver, a moderate hyperplasia of spleen lymphoid tissue as well as its plasmatization and an increase of megakaryocytes, the predecessors of thrombocyte cells, in it.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animal Feed
  • Animals
  • Fatty Acids, Omega-3 / toxicity*
  • Fatty Liver / etiology
  • Fatty Liver / pathology
  • Hyperplasia
  • Liver / chemistry*
  • Liver / pathology
  • Male
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Sharks*
  • Spleen / drug effects
  • Spleen / pathology*

Substances

  • Fatty Acids, Omega-3