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Morphological and Histochemical Study of Cephalic Glands of Bothrops jararaca (Ophidia, Viperidae)

1974; Wiley; Volume: 55; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1463-6395.1974.tb00176.x

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Ruberval Armando Lopes, Cleide da Câmara Azevedo de Oliveira, Mariangela Neme Maia Campos, Sílvio M. Campos, Esther Goldenberg Birman,

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Morphological and histochemical studies of the cell types in the cephalic glands of Bothrops jararaca have been performed. It is concluded: 1) mucous cells are found in the salivary labial, accessory glands; mucous-serous cells are found in the salivary labial, accessory and Harderian glands; serous-mucous cells are found only in the venom gland; 2) neutral mucosubstances and protein were found in the salivary labial, venom, accessory and Harderian glands; 3) hyaluronic acid was detected in the Harderian gland; 4) of the to sulfated acid mucosubstances, only chondroitin sulfate B was detected in the salivary labial and accessory glands; 5) sialic acid was detected in the salivary labial, accessory and Harderian glands.