title: Extrahepatic biliary tract in chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger, Molina).
abstract: The aim of the study was the macromorphological analysis of extrahepatic biliary tract in chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger Molina). Bile ducts, the gall bladder and portal vein were injected with coloured latex. Using the technique of dissection, bile ducts were isolated from the liver lobes. It was found that the cystic duct in this species is rarely single. Hepatic ducts form a system of multiple anastomosing structures running in the hepatoduodenal ligament. Many bile duct openings were observed in the duodenal papilla. The results confirm wide variations of the biliary tract in mammals and may be important for comparative analysis of the morphological differentiation of these structures in small mammals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, 15 Swietokrzyska Street, 25-406, Kielce, Poland.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.affiliation: Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, 15 Swietokrzyska Street, 25-406, Kielce, Poland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuchinka
authors.affiliation: Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, 15 Swietokrzyska Street, 25-406, Kielce, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szczurkowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, 15 Swietokrzyska Street, 25-406, Kielce, Poland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017734:Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D002682:Chinchilla / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D004386:Duodenum / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000033:anatomy & histology*