Developmental Study of the Ventral Scent Gland of the Mongolian Gerbil

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  • 近交系スナネズミの腹臭腺の発達

Abstract

Male and female in bred Mongolian gerbils aged 4, 5, 10, and 20 weeks were examined for the presence of a ventral scent gland macroscopically and hisologically. It was found in about half of the gerbils aged 4 weeks and in all of the gerbils aged over 5 weeks. In adult male gerbils it weighed three times as much as in females. The ventral scent gland exhibited a sebaceous-like structure which consists of giant glandular cells with small vacuoles in the cytoplasm and the glandular cells displayed eosinophilic bodies contained within a duct, which are extruded through the lumen as holocrine-type secretion.

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  • Experimental Animals

    Experimental Animals 41 (4), 545-548, 1992

    Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science

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