Reptilian Hematology

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  1. Reptile cells readily _____.
    rupture
  2. Which WBCs are rare in snakes?
    • eosinophils
    • monocytes
  3. Do we know alot about reptile hematology?
    no
  4. Where are the places we can collect blood in snakes?
    • ventral coccygeal
    • heart
    • palantine veins
  5. What is the ventral coccygeal vein?
    tail vein
  6. Do we use the palantine veins often?  Where are they?
    • no
    • roof of mouth
  7. Where is the ventral coccygeal vein?
    behind the vent
  8. What is the vent?
    scale that covers the cloaca (where poop, pee, and eggs come out)
  9. Where can we collect turtle blood?
    • jugular vein
    • occipital plexus
    • brachial vein
    • subcarapacial sinus
  10. Which place is the easiest to collect in a turtle?
    jugular
  11. Where is the occipital plexus?
    back of the head
  12. Where is the subcarapacial sinus?
    under the shell right below the carapace
  13. Which turtles do we use the subcarapacial sinus the most in?
    aquatic turtles
  14. If we aren't careful what might contaminate our subcarapacial sinus sample?
    might accidently hit the lymph sinus and our lymphocytes will be elevated...the blood will be a milky color
  15. What are the places to collect blood in a lizard?
    • caudal tail vein
    • ventral abdominal vein along midline
  16. Which place is the easiest to collect blood in a lizard?
    caudal tail vein
  17. What do erythrocytes look like in reptiles?
    nucleated, pink cytoplasm
  18. What is a normal PCV for reptiles?
    20 - 40%
  19. What can cause the PCV to vary?
    • nutrition
    • sex
    • environment
  20. What do heterophils look like in reptile blood?
    numerous fusiform (rod shaped) eosinophilic granules
  21. What is the most common granulocyte?
    heterophil
  22. What percent of leukocytes are heterophils in reptiles?
    40%
  23. What kind of nucleus do heterophils have in reptiles?
    • single nucleus
    • round to oval
  24. What do eosinophils look like in reptiles?
    • cytoplasmic eosinophilic granules
    • nuclei single or bi-lobed (eccentric)
  25. What colors are the granules stained in eosinophils in iguanas?
    stain blue
  26. What do basophils look like in reptiles?
    blue to purple granules in cytoplasm
  27. What color are the granules in basophils in iguanas?
    red
  28. What do the granules usually do to the nucleus in a basophil?
    obscure the basophil
  29. How many basophils do we normally see in reptiles?
    up to 40%
  30. What do lymphocytes look like in reptiles?
    • round cell with round nucleus
    • blue cytoplasm
  31. What do monocytes look like in reptiles?
    • light blue gray cytoplaasm
    • vacuoles
    • single nucleus oval to indented
  32. What are azurophils in reptiles?
    cytoplasm has fine eosinophilic granules and appears red
  33. What are azurophils derived from?
    monocytes
  34. How do we count azurophils?
    count it as a monocyte for our calculations but count separately on the differential
  35. What do thrombocytes look like in reptiles?
    • elliptical to round cells
    • clear cytoplasm
    • dense nucleus

  36. Name these WBCs.  What animal?
    • heterophil on the left, eosinophil on the right
    • Aldabra tortoise

  37. What WBC is this?
    azurophil

  38. What WBC is in the middle?
    eosinophil

  39. What are these WBCs and what animal?
    • eosinophil on the bottom
    • heterophil on the top
    • box turtle

  40. What is this?  What animal?
    • heterophil
    • box turtle

  41. What is this?  What animal?
    • degranulating heterophil - vacuoles caused by stain artifacts
    • crocodile

  42. Name these cells.
    • eosinophil on the top left
    • monocyte on the bottom left
    • lymphocyte on the right

  43. What are these cells?
    • erythrocytes
    • erythroblasts

  44. What are these blood parasites?
    • haemogregarines on the left
    • haemoproteus on the right

  45. What blood parasite is this?
    haemoproteus

  46. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • basophil
    • iguana

  47. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • eosinophil
    • iguana

  48. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • heterophil
    • iguana

  49. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • monocyte
    • iguana

  50. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • thrombocyte
    • iguana

  51. What is going on in this cell?  What animal is it?
    • mitosis
    • lizard

  52. What are these two cells?
    • lymphocyte to the left
    • immature RBC to the right

  53. What WBCs are these?
    monocytes

  54. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • heterophil
    • snapping turtle

  55. What is this?
    microfilaria

  56. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • heterophil
    • python

  57. What are these cells?  What animal?
    • toxic heterophils
    • skink

  58. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • azurophil
    • snake

  59. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • basophil
    • snake

  60. What are these cells from left to right?  What animal?
    • lymphocyte, eosinophilk, monocyte
    • snake

  61. What WBC is this?  What animal?
    • eosinophil
    • snapper

  62. Name these cells from top to bottom.  What animal?
    • heterophil, erythrocyte, lymphocyte, eosinophil
    • snapping turtle

  63. What WBCs are these?
    thrombocytes

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 Reptilian Hematology
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