Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Purushottam, Balwant Meshram, Mamta Kumari, Anita Kumari and Rakesh Gena

Abstract:
The aim of this study was to characterise the pancreatic ducts of twelve guinea fowl (Numida meliagris) birds in terms of their histological structure and histochemical characteristics. Tunica mucosa of pancreatic duct has simple cuboidal epithelium and got altered as simple columnar epithelium from caudal to cranial course. Lamina propria was surrounded by equally proportionate inner longitudinal and outer circular muscle fibers. Tunica adventitia was also observed. The collagen fibers were observed at mucus and Tunica adventitia. Histochemically the pancreatic duct was shown the mild activity of PAS for glycogen at epithelium and Tunica adventitia. Pancreatic duct has not shown any activity for acid phosphatases at any regional morphological component. The mucous and Tunica mucosa were showing mild positive activity for alkaline phosphatases.