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- Title
HISTOMORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF KIDNEY IN ADULT KESTREL, FALCO TINNUNCULUS.
- Authors
Alkafagy, Siraj M.; Ghazi, Jaafar; Alhaaik, A. G.
- Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the anatomical and histological characteristics of the kidney in Kestrel by incorporation on twelve healthy kidneys from six Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). Samples of kidney were collected from Kestrel, which lives in middle of Iraq. The anatomical investigations appeared that the size of kidney of Kestrel was large relatively with reddish to brown color and both kidneyswere lobulated and positioned retro-peritoneal in the sub-lumbar region of abdomen covered by fibrous connective tissue and fatty tissue. The kidney of kestrel comprised from cranial, middle and caudal lobes and the cranial lobe was the largest one. The right kidney were positioned more cranially than the left one. Histologically, the kidney of Kestrel was covered by very thin capsule. In the parenchyma of kidney there was no apparent demarcation line between cortex and medulla. Two types of nephron were found in the kidney of kestrel. The predominant cortical type which was devoid of loop of Henle and these nephrons are reptilian in form. The medullary type which had a nephronal loop of henle appeared to penetrate the conical medullary region of the lobules and these are mammalian in form.
- Subjects
KESTRELS; BIRD morphology; AVIAN anatomy; CONNECTIVE tissues; ADIPOSE tissues
- Publication
Biochemical & Cellular Archives, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 2, p3927
- ISSN
0972-5075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35124/bca.2019.19.2.3927