Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
3-1994
Journal Title or Book Title
Estuaries
Volume
17
Issue
1
Version
Post-Print
Publisher's Statement
Published version may be found at http://link.springer.com/article/10.2307/1352566
DOI
10.2307/1352566
Abstract
Liver sections of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) collected from Jamaica Bay and Shinnecock Bay, New York, in 1989, were examined microscopically to determine the pervasiveness of liver lesions observed previously in Jamaica Bay winter flounder. Neoplastic lesions were not detected in fish from Jamaica Bay or the Shinnecock Bay reference site. Twenty-two percent of Jamaica Bay winter flounder examined (n=103) had unusual vacuolization of hepatocytes and biliary pre-ductal and ductal cells (referred to hereafter as the vacuolated cell lesion). The lesion, identical to that found in 25% of Jamaica Bay winter flounder examined in 1988, has previously been identified in fishes taken from highly polluted regions of the Atlantic coast (e.g., Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, and Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut). Prevalence of the vacuolated cell lesion in winter flounder from Jamaica Bay was significantly greater (p
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Recommended Citation
Augspurger, Thomas P.; Herman, Roger L.; Hatfield, Jeff S.; and Tanacredi, John T. Ph.D., "Liver lesions in winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) from Jamaica Bay, New York: Indications of environmental degradation" (1994). Faculty Works: CERCOM (1977-2016). 7.
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