Peculiarities attending the growth and proliferation of the organ cultures of the liver of mongrel albino mice infected once with Coxsackie A-13 virus were investigated. A marked zone of growth, mostly of the epithelial cells, was determined rather early in the liver explants of mice in the experimental group, whereas in control group of mice the cell growth around the explant of the liver was either absent or very weak. Besides, a great number of lymphocytes evenly arranged in the zone of hepatocytes growth was observed in the preparations of the experimental mice liver. Lymphocyte "adhesion" to hepatocytes of the culture was revealed in some preparations. Moreover, destruction of the hepatocytes and a marked rarefaction of the cell layer occurred at the sites of lymphocytes accumulation on the 21st and the 28th days of growth.
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