Morphological and Histological Study of the Kidney in Cyrtopodion scabrum | ||
| journal of kerbala university | ||
| Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 89-96 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study aims to determine the morphological description and histological structure of the kidney in Cyrtopodion scabrum .The present study showed that the gecko has a pair of kidney equal in size and located at the rear position in the abdominal cavity with light brown color , The histological study showed that the kidney in gecko consist of two regions , cortex and medulla and there is no distinguished limit between them .Also the kidney has few nephrons which they loss loop of henle , each nephron consist of glomerulae surrounded by double layers of Bowman's capsule , the other part were tubules which they were the proximal,distal and collecting tubules .The epithelial lining of these parts (tubules ) are simple cuboidal , cuboidal and columnar cells respectively. | ||
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