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. 2024 Nov 6;20:508. doi: 10.1186/s12917-024-04341-z

Fig. 8.

Fig. 8

Colorectum of a quail embryo at day 17 of incubation (A-I). Histomorphology. Cross semithin sections (A-I). Toluidine stain (A-I). Images B-I were details of image A. Mucosa (M), muscular layer (ML), simple columnar epithelium (ep), goblet cell (black arrow), enterocyte (red arrow), lamina propria (lp), lymph vessel (lv), lymphocyte (L), villi (V), rectal gland (rg), mitotic divisions (blue arrow head), muscularis mucosa (mm), circular (CL), longitudinal (LL) muscle layers, telocytes (twisted arrows), telopodes (red arrow head), myenteric plexus (PL) consisted of capsule (purple arrow head), contained nerve cell bodies (n and green arrow head), and glial cell (white arrow head), surrounded with flattened cells (yellow arrow head), and serosa (SL). (A–I)