Table 1 Histopathology results of rats exposed to maleic acid polymer scale inhibitor
From: General toxicity and genotoxicity studies of a new scale inhibitor for seawater desalination
Organ | Pathological Change | Female(n = 10) | Male(n = 10) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Control | Low | Medium | High | Control | Low | Medium | High | ||
Liver | Mononuclear cell infiltration | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hepatocyte hypertrophy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Spleen | Hemosiderin deposition | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Kidney | Mesangial hyperplasia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |