The streaming submandibular gland

✍ Scribed by Zajicek, G. ;Yagil, C. ;Michaeli, Y.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 894 KB
• Volume: 213
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-276X
• DOI: 10.1002/ar.1092130206

✦ Synopsis

Twenty female young adult rats were injected with tritiated thymidine (3HTdR). The animals were then killed in groups of five, at the following times: 1 hour, and 4, 16, and 23 days. Autoradiograms of sections through the submandibular gland were prepared, and the location of labelled cells in relationship to tubuli and acini was recorded. The different tubular and acinar cross sections could be distinguished by their cell number. Narrow tubuli had fewer nuclei than the wider ones. The nuclear number of a cross section was defined as its class and the location