Histological and Histochemical Study of Stomach of Local Adult Male And Female Cape Hare Lepus Capensis

Abstract

The current study's to describe the stomach's histological and histochemical properties in male and female Lepus capensis, samples of cardiac, fundic, and pyloric regions were taken from 14 hare, exposed to histological techniques and stained with H&E, PAS, AB, Masson Trichrome and Mallory Trichrome. The stomach was glandular type and mucosa divided into cardiac, fundic, and pyloric portions. Mucosa, submucosa, muscularis, and serosa were the layers that make up stomach wall, the thickness of every layers in the fundic part was greater than that in the cardiac and pyloric parts, simple columnar epithelium lining the mucosa, with gastric pits that open into tubular or alveolar gastric glands. The mucosa's glands were shown as short, branched, coiled, tubular glands in the cardiac and pyloric regions, and they primarily include mucous-secreting cells with a very small number of parietal cells, while the fundic glands were simple branched tubular that were long, straight, and parallel to one another. They were coil-shaped at the base and had the chief cells and parietal cells, As connective tissue, the submucosa included numerous blood and lymphatic vessels, Inner and exterior smooth muscle fiber layers make up the muscularis externa, the mesothelium-based serosa. The gastric pits' surface lining cells in  the cardiac glands take positive reaction with PAS and negative with AB; while in fundic glands and pyloric glands no response to each of PAS and AB. Male and female stomach had the same number of gastric glands in each of stomach segments.