Ultrastructure of Weber's salivary glands of the root of the tongue in the rat

Anatomical Record

Volumn 249, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 435-440

  Nagato, Toshikazu ^a   Ren, Xue Zhe ^a   Toh, Hidetoshi ^a   Tandler, Bernard ^b  

^a FUKUOKA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minor salivary glands; Mucous cells; Serous cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALIVARY GLAND; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; TASTE; TONGUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; EXOCRINE GLANDS; MALE; MUCUS; ORGANELLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SALIVARY GLANDS, MINOR; SEROUS MEMBRANE; TONGUE;

EID: 0030838219     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199712)249:4<435::AID-AR2>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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