Changes

* Cellular swelling is best histologically appreciated in the liver and kidney in damage caused by circulating toxins that are not powerful enough to actually kill the cells.

* Cellular swelling is best histologically appreciated in the liver and kidney in damage caused by circulating toxins that are not powerful enough to actually kill the cells.

====Significance of Cellular Change====

====Significance of Cellular Swelling====

Cellular swelling is an important stage in degeneration, but not particularly commonly

* Cellular swelling is an important stage in degeneration.

observed on its own without more serious changes because it is also not easy to identify

** Not commonly observed on its own without more serious changes  

unless the post- mortem examination is performed very soon after the animal's death, as early

*** Not easy to identify at post-mortem unless the examination os perfomred very soon after the animal's death.

post-mortem (autolytic) change in dead tissue looks rather similar.

**** Early post-mortem (autolytic) change in dead tissue looks rather similar.

It is also reversible, that is when the toxin is no longer exerting its effect, the tissue returns to

*** Cellular swelling is also reversible.

**** When the toxin is no longer exerting its effect, the tissue returns to

normal.

normal.

It may also be a transient stage in the more serious forms of degenerations which follow.

*** Cellular swelling may be a transient stage in the more serious forms of degenerations which follow.

===Hydropic Degeneration===

===Hydropic Degeneration===