Histomorphological study of the liver in local moorhen birds (Gallinula chloropus)‎

Abstract EN

The present study was performed to illustration some anatomical and histological characteristics of the liver of adult male moorhen bird Gallinula chloropus.

The present study was conducted on 20 birds divided into two groups (10 for anatomical study and 10 for histological study) mature male healthy moorhen bird were used.

The liver of moorhen bird Gallinula chloropus was located in the right, left hepatoperitoneal cavity, seems red-brown in color.

Moreover, divided into two lobes, right and left, the left lobe appear larger than right lobe.

Histologically the liver of moorhen bird enclosed by thin capsule of connective tissue.

The hepatocytes, which arranged radially around the central vein as hepatic cords in two cells thickness.

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