Author(s):

Dr. K Balasundaram

Abstract: The pancreas as whole was collected from the fresh carcass of goat slaughtered in Namakkal. The complete pancreas was separated from the surrounding organs by careful blunt dissection and washed with normal saline and fixed in Neutral buffered formalin (NBF). The exocrine portion consisted of numerous dark-staining acini composed of tubular and spherical masses of cells, which were the subunits of the lobule. The endocrine part of pancreas appeared as lightly stained clusters of cells among the darkly stained acini. All the islets of Langerhans were surrounded by sparse collagen and reticulin fibres

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