1 Iraq Natural History Research Center andMuseum, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
2 Department of Medical Laboratory Techniques, College of Medical Technology, University of Alkitab, Iraq.
3 Department of Biology- College of science for Women, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
4 Iraq Natural History Research Center andMuseum, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
Research Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022, 20(02), 226–233.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2022.20.2.0329
Received on 18 July 2022; revised on 20 August 2022; accepted on 22 August 2022
The tongue is one of the important organs of vertebrates, as it plays an important role in the process of food intake, absorption and swallowing, It varies the morphological according to the organism, the habitat, and the nature of the food for it. The aim of the study is to reveal the histologist structure of the tongue of the guinea pig(Cavia porcellus), where we took three samples of adult males, and crosses the tongue similar to rodents, except for some differences in terms of the epithelial layers, mucosa, the muscular layer, the number of tongue layers and the spread of papillae on the tongue, which is, differences due to adaptation to the habitat and their diet.
Histological; Tongue; Guinea pig; Rodents; Papillae; Iraq
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Noor Hussein yousif, Noor Hashim Hazim, Noor Mahdi fathil and Shatha Abd Al-Hamoode. Histological study to the tongue for the guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) in Iraq. GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022, 20(2), 226-233. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/gscbps.2022.20.2.0329