title: [Intramural blood vessel system of the large intestine of domestic ruminants].
abstract: The vascular system of the large intestine of 15 cattle, 10 sheep and 5 goats has been examined by means of corrosion vascular casts, histology and electron microscopy. The results are as follows: The course and ramification of the intestinal vessels are identical in the caecum, colon and rectum. Furthermore, as expected, amongst the species studied no substantial differences in the vascular architecture of the large intestinal wall could be determined. The extramural vessels reach the wall of the intestine at the mesenteric margin. Their branches build arterial or venous networks in the tela subserosa, which then divide into branches in the direction of the antimesenteric region. The connections between the blood vessels of the tela subserosa and the tela submucosa as well as the branches to the muscular layers emerge from these networks. In the tela submucosa an arterial and venous system can be found. The obvious vascular arrangement in the submucosa is arranged not only parallel to the stratum circulare of the tunica muscularis but also along the prevailing direction of the lamina muscularis mucosae. From this arrangement both a deep and a superficial submucosal vascular plexus can be denominated. The recurrent branches for the circular muscle layer as well as the afferent and efferent vessels of the mucosa originate from submucosal arteries and veins. The arterioles of the tunica mucosa branch at the level of the basal crypts into a periglandular capillary system running close to the lumen into a subepithelial capillary system. Here the capillaries drain into venules which advance to the region of the intestinal glands and consequently drain into collecting veins in the submucosa. Capillaries of the subepithelial lamina propria mucosae are furnished with continuous or fenestrated endothelial linings as the morphological equivalent of the secretory or resorption processes, respectively. In the walls of the large intestine of the bovine, sheep and goat there are neither arterio-venous anastomoses nor hemodynamic regulatory structures such as sphincters or so-called throttle veins at the points of transition from capillaries to venules. These results are in accord with the findings in the small intestine of domestic ruminants (Hummel 1980).
authors.affiliation: Institut für Veterinär-Anatomie, -Histologie und -Embryologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Wille
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schenk
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001158:Arteries / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001160:Arterioles / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002196:Capillaries / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002417:Cattle / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D002432:Cecum / Q000098:blood supply; D006041:Goats / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000098:blood supply; D007420:Intestine, Large / Q000098:blood supply*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000098:blood supply; D012007:Rectum / Q000098:blood supply; D012756:Sheep / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014680:Veins / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000648:ultrastructure
vernacular_title: Uber das intramurale Blutgefässsystem des Dickdarms der Hauswiederkäuer.