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Kulawik M. , Godynicki S. 2006. FOLIATE PAPILLAE ON THE TONGUE IN THE DOMESTIC RABBIT (ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS F. DOMESTICA), EJPAU 9(3), #19.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume9/issue3/abs-19.html

ABSTRACT

In the posterior part of the body of the tongue there are two foliate papillae located on the dorsal-lateral part. Individual folia of foliate papillae are arranged parallel to one another and are separated by deep furrows. Numerous excretory ducts of posterior serous lingual glands (Ebner’s glands) open on the fundus of furrows of each foliate papilla. The epithelium covering foliate papillae varies in thickness as it forms epithelial streaks. In each folium of a foliate papilla there are two epithelial streaks. Sometimes in one folium papillae 3, 4 or 5 epithelial streaks were found. Some epithelial streaks divide. The connective tissue core of foliate papillae is formed by parallel folds of connective tissue separated by groove-like depressions. In each folium of a foliate papilla there is one central fold and two lateral folds. It is known from observations under a light microscope that folds of connective tissue area arranged between epithelial streaks. Some folds divide. Taste buds are found in the epithelium covering folia of foliate papillae from the side of the furrows, as well as in the epithelium directly surrounding papillae. Observations of the surface of foliate papillae confirmed the parallel arrangement of folia and furrows of papillae. Moreover, these observations showed that some folia papillae divide to form two secondary folia.

Key words: rabbit, tongue, foliate papillae.

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Mirosława Kulawik
Institute of Zoology, Department of Animal Anatomy, Poznań University of Life Sciences
ul. Wojska Polskiego 71 C
60-625, Poznań
tel: 48 61 8487625
email: kulawik@au.poznan.pl

Szymon Godynicki
Department of Histology and Embryology, Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences
ul. Wojska Polskiego 71 C
60-625, Poznań
email: gody@up.poznan.pl

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