Cardiac blood structures found in chickens with "flip-over" syndrome are post-mortem blood clots rather than ante-mortem thrombi.
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Reclassifies structures in avian models as post-mortem clots; leaves open relevance to mammalian thrombosis research.
Chickens exhibiting "flip-over" syndrome were found on necropsy to have a blood structure in the heart chamber. Histological studies showed that this structure is formed of erythrocytes, leucocytes, fibrin and serum. Fibroblasts, collagen fibers, and thrombocyte agglutination were not observed. These observations indicate that the structures studied are post-mortem blood clots.
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Cassidy et al. (1975) studied this question.
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