Hamada Y, Okada T, Kanabayashi T
Seiwa Experimental Animals, Ltd., Fukuoka, Japan.
Jikken Dobutsu. 1992 Oct;41(4):545-8. doi: 10.1538/expanim1978.41.4_545.
Male and female in bred Mongolian gerbils aged 4, 5, 10, and 20 weeks were examined for the presence of a ventral scent gland macroscopically and histologically. It was found in about half of the gerbils aged 4 weeks and in all of the gerbils aged over 5 weeks. In adult male gerbils it weighed three times as much as in females. The ventral scent gland exhibited a sebaceous-like structure which consists of giant glandular cells with small vacuoles in the cytoplasm and the glandular cells displayed eosinophilic bodies contained within a duct, which are extruded through the lumen as holocrine-type secretion.
