title: Multinucleate giant cells in the regressed corpus luteum of the bitch.
abstract: The pigmented cell clusters which make up the residual luteal tissue in the canine ovary were found to be mostly syncytial in nature and to resemble the foreign-body and Langhan's-type giant cells of chronic inflammation.
authors.affiliation: Veterinary Anatomy Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Dore
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003338:Corpus Luteum / Q000166:cytology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004285:Dogs / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D003341:Luteolysis; D008854:Microscopy, Electron