Comparative Anatomical Studies of the Cerebrum, Cerebellum, and Brainstem of Males Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) and Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Autor: J.A. Timbuak, Akinyemi Ademola Omoniyi, Fatima Muhammad Yahaya, Sunday Abraham Musa, Augustine Oseloka Ibegbu
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of Veterinary Anatomy. 9:1-14
ISSN: 2357-0504
DOI: 10.21608/jva.2016.37279
Popis: Comparative morphologic, mor- phometric and histological studies were carried out on the cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem of ten adult male mammalian species namely the Guinea pig (Cavia por- cellus) and Rabbit (Oryctolagus cu- niculus). The animals were acclima- tized for three days, weighed and lightly anaesthetized with chloro- form, humanly sacrificed and per- fused with physiological saline andBouin’s fluid. The brain were re- moved through midline incision through the skull and then fixed inBouin’s fluid, processed routinelyand stained using Haematoxylin and Eosin stains. The brains were ob- served to be milky in colour and globular in shape in the two mam- malian species though the size dif- fered in the animals. The mean body weight of Guinea pig and Rabbit were 454.00 ± 53.43g and 1393.00 ± 61.68g re- spectively. The results showed a statistical significant increase of the mean body weight, whole brain weight, weight of the cerebrum, weight of the cerebellum and weight of the brainstem in Rabbit compared to Guinea (P
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