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Ultrastructure of the Submandibular Gland in the Lesser White-Toothed Shrew, Crocidura suaveolens  

Jeong, Soon-Jeong (Department of Oral Histology, College of Dentistry, Chosun University)
Jeong, Moon-Jin (Department of Oral Histology, College of Dentistry, Chosun University)
Kim, Do-Kyung (Department of Oral Physiology, College of Dentistry, Chosun University)
Kook, Joong-Ki (Department of Oral Biochemistry, College of Dentistry, Chosun University)
Kim, Heung-Joong (Department of Oral Anatomy, College of Dentistry, Chosun University)
Yoon, Myung-Hee (Division of Natural Sciences, College of Sciences, Kyungsung University)
Park, Joo-Cheol (Department of Oral Histology, College of Dentistry, Chosun University)
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Applied Microscopy / v.35, no.2, 2005 , pp. 65-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
The ultrastructure of submandibular gland was examined in the lesser white-toothed shrew, Crocidura suaveolens. The submandibular gland of C. suaveolens was a mixed gland composed of serous and mucous acinar cells. Secretory granules from the acini were discharged through the salivary ducts into the oral cavity. Serous and mucous acinar cells had well developed rough endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria and large amount of granules. In case of serous acinar granules, an immature granule was formless and had only dense specks, and a matured granule was a complete round type delimiting by a single membrane and had a homogeneous dense center with dense specks on the border. In case of mucous acinar granules, while an immature granule was a round type and had an only homogeneous matrix and an indistinct limiting membrane, a mature granule was an even round type having a variety of pattern with several dense bands into the homogeneous matrix and had a distinct membrane. Therefore, a mature mucous acinar granule of C. suaveolens was not only distinct from those of the other mammalian species to have a variety of pattern but also from those of C. lasiura to have an even round type. A great serous-like secretory granules and Myelin-like body were observed in the cytoplasm and lumen of granular duct cells. Myelin-like body, a characteristic structure only reported in salivary gland of three shrews, was discharged from secretory cell into lumen by the manner of exocytosis which has little differences from discharging manner of secretory granules.
Keywords
Crocidura suaveolens; Mucous acinar granule; Myelin-like body; Submandibular gland; Ultrastructure;
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