Morphological and histological study for liver in local coot birds fulica atra

Abstract EN

The results of this study showed that the liver of coot bird fulica atra is closely resample to the liver of fowl that it lies in the ventral part of the body cavity and seems red-brown in color and divided into two lobes, right and left.

Histologically the liver of coot bird enclosed by thin capsule of connective tissue that continue to subdivided the liver into lobules.

The hepatocyte which arranged radially around the central vein as hepatocord in two cells thickness.

These cells are polygonal in shape and have rounded nucleus and there is present of sinusoids between hepatocords which lined by flattened endothelial cells.