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Abstract
Whole-mount preparations of the submucosa were made from the small intestine of rats, guinea-pigs, rabbits and sheep. In the distended intestine the collagen fibres ran straight and approximately parallel to the serosal surface. They formed a characteristic lattice, with two arrays of fibres running diagonally in a clockwise and an anticlockwise direction, and making an angle of 50 degrees-55 degrees with the longitudinal axis of the intestine. This collagen-fibre lattice was flexible and changed with the movements of the intestinal wall; when the radial distension predominated, the angle between collagen fibres of the submucosa and longitudinal axis of the intestine increased to 60 degrees-65 degrees, and when the longitudinal distension predominated the angle decreased to about 30 degrees.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3607846 DOI: 10.1007/bf00216474
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Tissue Res ISSN: 0302-766X Impact factor: 5.249