title: Blood cells of the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.): light and electron microscopic studies.
abstract: The peripheral blood cells of the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.) were studied by light and transmission and scanning electron microscopic methods. Acidophilic erythroblasts and mature erythrocytes, round, oval, and fusiform thrombocytes, neutrophils, acidophils and basophils, lymphocytes, plasma cells, and monocyte-macrophages were characterized. A comparison of our light and electron microscopic results was carried out. The results were discussed with those for other fish species and the main modifications from the common vertebrate haematological pattern observed being considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: López-Ruiz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Angeles Esteban
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meseguer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001773:Blood Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005399:Fishes / Q000097:blood*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning