Figure 1 :

The photomicrograph shows sample of rats in Group 1 which received oral administration of 50mg/kg/bodyweight of Ranitidine prior to receiving further oral administration of 80mg/kg/bodyweight of Indomethacine. Heamatoxylin and Eosin X 800. The Solid Arrow is on the gastric pit, the broken arrows are on the mucus secreting cells, the star sign is on the gastric gland, the parietal cells are in the circle signs, the peptic cells are in the square signs, M = Gastric Mucosa, MM = Muscularis Mucosae, SM = Submuscularis and MS = Muscularis Layer. Histological observations of the stomach body wall in rats of Group 1 showed normal morphological appearance of the different components of the mucosa layer.