Authors: Suíçmez, Menderes; Ulus, Emel

Source: Folia Biologica, Volume 53, Numbers 1-2, June 2005 , pp. 95-100(6)

Publisher: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences

Abstract:

The anatomy, histology and ultrastructure of the digestive tract of Orthrias angorae (Steindachner, 1897) were investigated using light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The histological structure consists of four layers: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis and serosa. The esophageal mucosa consists of undifferentiated basal epithelial cells, mucous cells and surface epithelial cells. It was observed that the J-shaped stomach had a meshwork of folds in the cardiac region, and longitudinal folds in the fundic and pyloric regions. A single layer of columnar cells, PAS positive only in their apical portions, forms the epithelium. The convoluted tube-shape intestine is lined by simple columnar epithelial cells, which have microvilli at the apical surface. The wall of the esophagus and stomach are thicker than that of the intestine because of the thick muscle layer. There were numerous goblet cells in the intestine. There were numerous gastric glands in the submucosa layer of the cardiac stomach, but none were present in the pyloric region of the stomach. There were no pyloric caeca between the stomach and intestine. The enterocytes with microvilli contained rough endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes and rounded bodies, and the gastric cells contained a well-developed Golgi apparatus.

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Keywords: ORTHRIAS ANGORAE; DIGESTIVE TRACT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3409/1734916054663492

Publication date: 2005-06-01

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