Pancreas – a Morphometrical Study in Large White Yorkshire and Desi Pigs
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Date
2018-11
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Excellent Publishers
Abstract
The pancreas, an important organ of endocrine research is a digestive gland with both
exocrine and endocrine functions. The pancreas for this study was collected from different
age groups of large white Yorkshire and desi pigs. The morphometrical parameters such as
weight of pancreas, length and width of each lobe and histometrical parameters such as
number of islets per lobule, length and width of islets were recorded. The pancreas of pigs
consisted of splenic, duodenal and connecting lobes. The mean weight of the pancreas was
gradually increased as age advanced. In proportion to body weight and pancreas weight,
the length and width of pancreatic lobes were steadily increased from four months of age
to adult. The number of islets per lobule was higher in young age groups and then
gradually decreased with age. This morphometrical study of pig pancreas can serve as a
standard to judge atrophy or hypertrophy of organs in post-mortem diagnosis and for
research in pancreas of other species
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TNV_Ijcmas_2018_7(11)2777-2781
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Veterinary Science