Fatty liver and subcutaneous edema in a free-living bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus, Montagu 1821) from the Adriatic Sea; light- and electron-microscopical study

Veterinarski Arhiv

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 259-277

  Gomerčić, Hrvoje ^a   Huber, Duro ^a   Gomerčić, Vera ^b   Vuković, Snježana ^a   Škrtić, Darinka ^a   Gomerčić, Tomislav ^a   Dobranić, Vesna ^a   Lucić, Hrvoje ^a   Duras, Martina ^a   Ćurković, Snjeźana ^a   Gomerčić, Ana ^c   Kardoš, Ljerka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b PLIVA Research Institute Ltd   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Bottlenose dolphin; Dolphin; Electron microscopy; Fatty liver; Histochemistry; Light microscopy; Subcutaneous edema; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034563481     PISSN: 03725480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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