Publication: Effects of white light on the pineal gland
of the chick embryo
Authors
Aige-Gil, Vicente ; Murillo-Ferrol, Narciso
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Murcia : F. Hernández
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
Chick embryos were directly exposed to a
source of white light during incubation and sacrificed
before hatching. The light caused a number of
teratological effects such as high mortality, delay
in development, celosomy, hepatomegaly, auricular
dilation and micrognatia. The pineal gland of the
illuminated embryos showed an increase in number
and size of the intracytoplasmic lipid droplets of the
follicular pinealocytes. These findings suggest that the
pineal gland of the chick embryo is sensitive to light.
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