Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Regeneration of the parotid gland in the rat

  • Experimental Biology
  • Published:
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine Aims and scope

Summary

Parotid gland regeneration was studied in rats in which all of the left gland and part (50–60%) of the right had been removed. In young rats weighing 60–100 g, regeneration occurred in 19% of cases, as judged by the restoration of the weight of the organ. The weight of the glands did not always reach the initial level, however, and averaged 80% of the weight in control animals.

The number of cases with gland regeneration increased in adult rats when the capsule was left open after the operation. Histological investigation showed that regeneration does not occur by growth starting at the injured surface, but rather by the proliferation of the secretory epithelium (regenerative hypertrophy) of the acini over the whole organ.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Literature Cited

  1. A. G. Babaeva, Byull. Éksp. Biol. Med.43, 3, 95 (1957). Original Russian pagination. See C. B. translation.

    Google Scholar 

  2. E. Sh. Gerlovin, Abstracts of Ukrainian Conference of Morphologists [in Russian] (Kharkov, 1956) Vol. 2, p. 51.

    Google Scholar 

  3. E. Sh. Gerlovin, Transactions of the Leningrad Sanitary Hygiene Medical Institute [in Russian] (1958) Vol. 42, p. 132.

    Google Scholar 

  4. V. M. Koropov, Materials on the Pathological Physiology of the Salivary Glands [in Russian] (Moscow, 1949).

  5. W. Podwyssozki, Beitr. path. Anat.2, 19 (1887).

    Google Scholar 

  6. A. Carraro, Frankf. Z. Path.3, 26 (1909).

    Google Scholar 

  7. B. B. Milstein, J. Exper. Path.31, 664 (1950).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Ribbert, Arch. Entwicklungs Mechan.6, 537 (1898).

    Google Scholar 

  9. E. H. Schäfer and B. Moor, J. Physiol.19, 13. No year given in original-Publisher.

  10. H. Teir, Acta path. et microbiol. scandinav.32, 337 (1953).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Growth and Development of the Institute of Experimental Biology, AMN SSSR, Moscow

    A. G. Babaeva

Authors
  1. A. G. Babaeva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Babaeva, A.G. Regeneration of the parotid gland in the rat. Bull Exp Biol Med 50, 1084–1087 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00784886

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00784886

Keywords

Search

Navigation