각종동물 간 지방섭취세포에 관한 관찰

초록

Besides already known many histologic structures of liver, Ito of Japan, in 1950, discovered another kind of cell existed in the liver, which subsequently called the fat-storing cell. Authors scrutinized the cell microscopically and a histologic comparison was made among several animal, the results of which being as follows: 1) The entity of the fat-storing cell, without exception, was confirmed in the normal livers of man, white rat, mouse, cow, rabbit, guinea pig and chicken. 2) The form, size and alignment of the fat droplets in the cell were shown to be all species-specific and almost no individual difference among the same species. 3) The largest droplets were seen in the liver of cow, the smallest in those of chicken and guinea pig. 4) In the unit area of the specimens, the droplets were found most numerous in the liver of chicken and least in that of rabbit.