Medycyna Wet. 62 (12), 1435-1438, 2006
| Pliszczak-Król A., Graczyk S., Król J., Janaczyk B. |
| Evaluation of the reactivity of blood leukocytes in anemized rats |
| The reactivity of rat blood leukocytes after recurrent blood losses was examined. The blood samples were collected from the heart, three times in seven-day intervals. The volume of each sample was approximately 15% of the total blood volume. The functional changes in leukocytes were determined utilizing a test of radial segmentation of nuclei (RS) in mononuclear leukocytes and a test of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast phagocytosis. Our results demonstrate that sequential blood loss induced a decrease in the number of mononuclear cells indicating RS from 21.2% after 1st blood sampling up to 13% and 14% in following samplings: a decrease in number of phagocytic granulocytes from 49.5% after 1st blood sampling up to 41% and 39.3% after 2nd and 3rd sampling, respectively; and an increase in the number of phagocytic mononuclear blood cells from 8.5% after the 1st sampling up to 9.2% and 12.7% after the 2nd and 3rd blood samplings respectively. We affirm that this frequent blood loss modified the reactivity of blood leukocytes but did not change the WBC quantity in blood. |
| Keywords: radial segmentation, phagocytosis, lekocytes, anemized rats |