Departamento de Biologia, UNESP/Rio Claro/SP/Av. 24A n. 1515, CEP 13.506-900, Brazil.
Micron. 2011 Apr;42(3):271-4. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2010.10.004. Epub 2010 Oct 20.
The three-dimensional technique applied to the salivary gland of the millipides Rhinocricus padbergi showed that it is a single structure, dorsolaterally located to the animal gut and composed of two distinct portion: an acinar and a tubular one. The last one opening onto the oral cavity. This work shows that the salivary gland in R. padbergi, although is a single body, it displays two excretory ducts (one in each side of the anterior end of the gut) which has the function of carrying out the secretion produced toward to the oral cavity, contrary to the anterior data registered by other authors who suggested that the salivary gland in diplopod animals would be a paired structures.
三维技术应用于 Rhinocricus padbergi 的唾液腺显示，它是一个单一的结构，位于动物肠道的背外侧，由两个不同的部分组成：一个是腺泡状的，另一个是管状的。后者通向口腔。这项工作表明，尽管 R. padbergi 的唾液腺是一个单一的器官，但它显示出两个排泄管（位于肠道前端的每一侧），其功能是将分泌的物质输送到口腔，与其他作者之前记录的双足动物的唾液腺是成对结构的观点相反。
