Abstract
Histological and enzyme histochemical studies were carried out on the excretory kidney of the male bullhead (Cottus gobio). During the spawning season striking morphofunctional changes were observed in the second proximal segment of the kidney tubule. The tubular epithelium was greatly hypertrophied, strongly basophilic and produced a PAS‐positive secretion. The enzyme histochemical pattern also changed conspicuously during this time: the alkaline phosphatase activity in the brush border was greatly reduced; the acid phosphatase and non‐specific esterase activity in the cytoplasm was distinctly elevated.
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