TO THE ULTRASTRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION OF EPITHELIOCYTES OF EXOCRINE GLANDS

Abstract

Pieces of the sublingual multi-duct salivary glands of a domestic sexually mature large white pig were fixed in a 4 % paraform solution in 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH = 7.4) with addi-tional fixation in a 1 % OsO4 solution, dehydrated in alcohols of increasing concentration. Taking into account the recommendations of G. Gayer, pieces of organs were poured into araldite accord-ing to the standard technique. Contrasting was performed according to Reynolds. In the cytoplasm of the mucocytes of the sublingual multi-duct salivary gland, the agranu-lar endoplasmic reticulum predominates, which gives oxyphilic staining. According to electron microscopic studies of mucous glandulocytes in the acini of the sub-lingual salivary glands of domestic pigs, the secretory vacuoles of the cytoplasm are large, with pro-nounced electron-dense membranes. The content of vacuoles in mucocytes of one acinus is differ-ent.