A study of some metric parameters of the erythrocytes in Rana ridibunda (Amphibia: Anura) derived from an area of highly developed chemical industry
Zhivko Zhelev, Mladen V. Angelov, Ivelin A. Mollov · 2006
Abstract: Some metric parameters of the erythrocyte (big cell diameter (D-cell), small cell diameter (d-cell), big nuclear diameter (D-nucleus) and small nuclear diameter (d-nucleus)) in the blood of Rana ridibunda, inhabiting highly developed chemical industry area, were established. The results were compared with the data from our previous work, carried out in a relatively unpolluted area and another industrial area with different kind of pollution. Considerable variations in cell and nuclear parameters were detected. Key words: red blood cells, frogs, cell diameters, nuclear diameters, Prise-Jones curves