Morphological and Morphometric Studies on the Epididymis of West African Dwarf Buck Goat (Capra hircus).
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2015-10-01
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Egypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research
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The present studies were carried
out on the epididymis collected,in
summer season, from twenty-four
matured West African Dwarf male
goats at the Ipata abattoir, Ilorin,
Kwara state, Nigeria. Macroscopically, the results revealed three
major regions of the epididymis
namely the head, body and tail. The head appeared irregularly oval and flat; the body was long, slender and cylindrical while the
tail appeared short and U-shaped. The microscopic examination revealed predominant principal cells,
the basal cells, in all regions. The head was characterized by tall columnar epithelium with apical
cells;thin long narrow cells and stereocilia, extending into lumen,
which was scarcely filled with spermatozoa. The body was characterized by low columnar epithelium with short narrow cells and
stereocilia. Its lumen was filled
with more spermatozoa than the
head region. The tail was formed
by cuboidal epithelium with no stereocilia but more densely filled with
spermatozoa than the head and
body regions. Gross morphometric results revealed no significant differences in the mean
weight, length of the head, body,
tail and total length of the right and
left epididymis (p < 0.05). Histomorphometric result showed that
there was a significant reduction in
epididymal epithelia height of the
tail compared with the head of the
right and left epididymis (p < 0.05).
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Raji et al 2015 Journal of Veterinary Anatomy. 8 (2): 69-80.