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Fig. 4

From: General toxicity and genotoxicity studies of a new scale inhibitor for seawater desalination

Fig. 4

Typical pathology of important organs in the histopathological analysis of rats exposed to high-dose maleic acid polymer scale inhibitor (1/5 LD50) for 90 days (n = 5). Mononuclear cell infiltration and hepatocyte hypertrophy in the liver, mesangial hyperplasia in the kidney, and hemosiderin deposition in the spleen are shown by the arrows. After HE staining, liver and spleen tissues were observed at 400 × and kidney tissue was observed at 200 × under an optical microscope

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