[Structural organization of the palatal salivary glands of rats according to the results of stereological analysis].
By means of semi-thin serial sections and by the method of plastic reconstruction, the palatal salivary gland have been structurally analyzed and some objective data have been obtained on spatial organization of identical glandular complexes which make a component part of the lobule and are known as adenomeres. In the adenomere, several interconnected glandular components are distinguished, the terminal sections, acini comprising the most numerous group among them. An individual acinus is integrated in the adenomere not as its autonomic member but as its intrinsic part. The structural-functional unit of small salivary gland, with the palatal gland being their most representative group, are supposed to occupy the highest level in their structural organization.
D000818:Animals; D051381:Rats; D012469:Salivary Glands / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
Strukturnaia organizatsiia nebnykh sliunnykh zhelez krysy po dannym stereologicheskogo analiza.