Carson K A, Rose R K
Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
Eur J Morphol. 1993 Mar-Jun;31(1-2):111-28.
Adult male short-tailed shrews, Blarina brevicauda, (Insectivora: Soricidae) were trapped in Virginia and Pennsylvania, anesthetized, and perfused via the left ventricle of the heart with fixative. The submandibular glands were dissected free and prepared for transmission electron microscopy. The lobular, compound tubuloacinar glands had secretory endpieces consisting of seromucous acini and serous tubules connected to intercalated ducts, granular ducts, striated ducts, and excretory ducts. The general cytology of the submandibular gland of Blarina shared morphological characters with individuals in several other mammalian orders and yet differed in many ways from another Insectivore, the European hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus.
成年雄性短尾鼩鼱（Blarina brevicauda，食虫目：鼩鼱科）在弗吉尼亚州和宾夕法尼亚州被捕获，麻醉后通过心脏左心室用固定剂灌注。将下颌下腺分离出来，准备用于透射电子显微镜检查。小叶状的复管泡状腺具有分泌末端，由浆液黏液性腺泡和连接到闰管、颗粒管、纹状管和排泄管的浆液小管组成。短尾鼩鼱下颌下腺的一般细胞学与其他几个哺乳动物目个体具有共同的形态特征，但在许多方面与另一种食虫动物欧洲刺猬（Erinaceus europaeus）不同。
