Luminal morphology of the avian lower intestine: Evidence supporting the importance of retrograde peristalsis for water conservation

Anatomical Record

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 289-296

  Casotti, Giovanni ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CECUM; FOWL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEREOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUID BALANCE; INTESTINE; INTESTINE BRUSH BORDER;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; INTESTINAL SECRETIONS; INTESTINE, LARGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROVILLI; PERISTALSIS; SONGBIRDS; WATER;

EID: 0035399249     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.1104     Document Type: Article

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