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Distribution of N‐methyl‐N‐nitrosourea in the Amazon molly, Poecilla formosa (Girard), after a single intraperitoneal injection*
Author(s) -
Woodhead A. D.,
Cao E.H.,
Melgar T.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1985.tb04242.x
Subject(s) - intraperitoneal injection , biology , spleen , kidney , excretory system , distribution (mathematics) , cerebrum , medicine , anatomy , endocrinology , central nervous system , immunology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The distribution and accumulation of labelled N‐methyl‐N nitrosourea (MNU) has been described in the Amazon molly following intraperitoneal injection. Two hours after injection the label was present throughout the body, with enhanced deposition in the macrophages of the atrium of the heart, the kidney and the spleen; about half of the liver cells were labelled. The compound was taken up by the cells of the renal excretory tubules, and certain cells in the optic tectum and corpus cerebelli of the brain. By 6 h, the distribution picture had changed radically. There was little label remaining, except in a few macrophages in the heart and kidneys, and in the nuclei of the renal tubule cells. There was a slight decrease in the numbers of cells in the brain that were labelled, but the amount of material that the individual cells had accumulated had increased. By 48 h there was further loss and only brain cells were labelled. Our findings indicate preferential accumulation of MNU in undifferentiated, pluripotential cells of the optic tectum and corpus cerebelli.