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## Background: The mammalian tongue encompasses several sizeable agglomerations of minor salivary glands. the ultrastructure of the various glands in the body of that organ has already been determined. in contrast, almost nothing is known of the structure of weber's glands, a collection of salivary glands in the root of the tongue. ## Methods: The entire tongue was extirpated from anesthetized adult male rats that had been perfused with fixative and specimens of tissue that included weber's glands were dissected from the lingual root. these were prepared for electron microscopic examination by conventional means. ## Results: Weber's glands in the rat are mixed glands, consisting of long mucous tubules that often are capped by serous demilunes. there appear to be no ducts per se, the mucous tubules increasing in caliber and approaching the crypts of the dorsal lingual surface while still retaining their mucous secretory character. as these ducts near the surface, their lining changes to stratified squamous epithelium. the mucous cells are cytologically similar to those in the sublingual glands of the same animal. mucous droplets undergo vertical fusion to form centrally situated int

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Author

Toshikazu Nagato; Xue-Zhe Ren; Hidetoshi Toh; Bernard Tandler

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0003-276X)

Published

1997

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)