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[Histological study of different organs in clinically healthy Amazon parrots]
H Gerlach1, A Theodorou, R A Hildebrand
1Institut f r Geflügelkrankheiten, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München.
Abstract:
Histologic examination of organs of clinically healthy amazons was carried out. Only variations from the chicken are presented, among others: Occurrence of a complex of vessels and many Herbst' corpuscles in the nasal cavity; evidence of a thick muscular layer as well as many Herbst' corpuscles and nerve fibers as the cover of the syrinx; demonstration of muscular trabeculae in the parabronchia; detection of an artery accompanying the testes with muscular layers reaching into the adventitia and many nerve fibers; very small numbers of active lymph follicles within the white pulp of the spleen.