Hematological Response to Pollution with Pesticides in Anurans

T. I. Zhukova* and T. Yu. Peskova**

* Kuban State University, ul. Stavropol’skaya 149, Krasnodar, 350640 Russia

** Kuban State Medical Academy, ul. Sedina 4, Krasnodar, 350640 Russia

Received January 22, 1998

Abstract—The response of amphibian red blood to short-term exposure of amphibians to different pesticide
solutions and hematological parameters of animals living in water bodies polluted with pesticides were studied.
Two main types of changes in the total and differential leukocyte counts depending on pesticide concentration
were revealed.

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