Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparisonFox, Herbert
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Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparison
Fox, Herbert
Veterinary medicine
Since the foregoing conditions so vitally concern the bone marrow, it is
but natural to give to this structure a separate consideration. From
what is known of the origin, physiology, anatomy and regeneration of the
marrow from the work of Ponfick, of Neusser, Bunting, Selling, Werigo
and many others, it seems highly probable that the principal conclusions
reached in the study of human medicine and experimental pathology, apply
to the whole group of animals here under discussion. The peculiar
arrangement already mentioned as encountered in the marrow of birds
differs little if any from the erythropoietic centres seen in man after
experimental anemia, although it may be somewhat more orderly.
Myeloblasts or megakaryocytes are not numerously present in any order,
but seem more prominent in the mammals than in birds. In so far as the
mononuclear groups are concerned, one can state with reasonable
certainty that they differ little throughout the animal kingdom. They
occur in islands, strands, or infiltrate—like groups, are mixed granular
and non-granular in character and, with exception of the frankly
oxyphilic cells, are distinctly basic in tinctorial affinity. In a case
probably myeloma, soon to be discussed, there is not a single
acidophilic or multinucleated cell to be found in two sections. As might
be expected from the greater eosinophilic content of the circulating
blood in the Aves, greater numbers of such cells are to be found in the
marrow and they are, understandingly enough, sometimes found in distinct
nodes and groups containing mono- and polynuclear varieties. Concerning
the platelets, no sufficient data are at our disposal to warrant a
general statement. In the avian marrow they can be made out quite
clearly, as in the blood, and have a greater diameter and a sharper,
more chromatic nucleus than in the higher mammalian blood. Mast cells
are quite common in lower mammals and birds, in whose blood they
maintain an appreciable percentage, while in the marrow they stand out
clearly. It is noteworthy, in the light of Graham’s statement that the
hemic basophile is but a degeneration form of the eosinophile, that in
the bird’s marrow, large mono- and polynuclear cells with both kinds of
granules easily may be found by Romanowsky stain. An increase of
eosinophiles, seen in avian as well as in human parasitism, is not
necessarily accompanied by basophilia.
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