The animals were fed with a local drink for 42 days and I consistently observed the lesions in the liver of the animals. kindly assist in the interpretation of this observation
Coul you please share which type of study you were conducted on the animals, what was the detailed protocol? Which local drink was used to feed the animals for 42 days?
It is a local Nigeria drink that is widely consumed. I tested the effect of chronic consumption of the drink in rats. The animals were given the drink orally for 42 days. They were then sacrificed and I consistently observed the gross lesion in the liver. I will soon published the detailed result. I only need pathologist to tell me what the lesion are
you have several cysts in the liver of the first picture and lesser number of the same cyst while the last picture has no cysts at all only the gallbladder.
to know the exact pathological lesion a histological section is required.
i expect that there is a tabe worm investation in your rat colony.
Thank you Hosam. Are there other causes of the cysts? The animals were fed with an alcoholic (20%) based herbal drinks that is widely consumed in Nigeria. Moreover, I treated the animals with an antibotic and anthelmintic before the commencement of the study. In addition, the cysts were not found in the control. More importantly, I have done the histopathology analysis and noticed severe lesion (necrosis) in the liver of treated animals
Necrosis is probably from the high alcohol content for such a long duration. I would stain for fibrosis because, you have probably induced cirrhosis and that is hepatocellular carcinoma. Just a guess but that's what it looks like. You would need to post some H&E sections and have a histopathologist look to be sure.
I have some of histopathological slides the revealed severe necrosis, vacuolation, sinusoidal congestion and peripheral fibrosis, edema and atropy of the cords
yes it is better to get histopathological sections if these lesions are hepatocellular carcenoma. then the alcoholic drinc is very carcenogenic. usually you get fibrosis so the histopathological section and liver enzymes will help.
Your histology fields need to include the cyst. Having said that, looking at your macroscopic fields, this 99% looks like a liver cyst, from a parasite, and does not look characteristic of HCC. Don't simply assume that your antihelminthic dose would have eradicated this. They have different specificities. For example, ivermectin is not effective for tapeworm.
I think if this is wild rat.. this multicystes is the larval stage of Taenia fasciolaris or Cysticercus fasciolaris, if this is lab rat also the same result..Why??????
Because your lab. house did not close strongly and their was a contact between lab. and wild rats...
you can be sure by cut one cyst cearfuly and examine under microscope and can see the scolex