Developmental Study of the Ventral Scent Gland of the Mongolian Gerbil
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- HAMADA Yuji
- <I>Seiwa Experimental Animals, Ltd.</I>
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- OKADA Tadao
- <I>Seiwa Experimental Animals, Ltd.</I>
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- KANABAYASHI Teruhiko
- <I>Bio Pathology Institute Co. Ltd.</I>
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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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.
Journal
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- Experimental Animals
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Experimental Animals 41 (4), 545-548, 1992
Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1571980077903139328
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- NII Article ID
- 130006940050
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Articles