| Abstract: | On the mucosal surface of the cecum in some domestic mammals. A scanning electronmicroscopical study The cecal mucosa of the pig, domestic ruminants and horse was examined with the scanning electron microscope. Despite uniform technic marked species differences in the surface architecture were encountered in places. These were irregularly shaped openings of the glands of Lieberkühn and irregularly shaped territories between the crypts in horse and goat; and in the pig and ox, and especially in the sheep, a mosaic of mostly uniform crypt areas. Most of the differences encountered were thought to be related to different functional states. There is a possibility however that some of the differences were species-bound. |
