Effects of bromadiolone on some organs and tissues (liver, kidney, spleen, blood) of coypu (Myocastor coypus)

Bromadiolone damaged the erythrocytes, resulting in a probable saturation of transferrin, a deposit of iron in the connective tissue and in a few cells of the proximal tubules of the kidneys and an increased storage of ferritin in the spleen. In the hepatocytes, mitochondria were distorted, their lipid inclusions being granular; a large depletion of glycogen may be considered a reflection of an elevated phosphorylase a ascribable to the proliferation of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum. In the kidneys, pyelonephritis may be irrelevant to the poisoning of the animals. Bromine could not be detected using microanalytical methods.