RESEARCH ARTICLE

Anatomical and histological characteristic of the tongue and tongue mucosa linguae in the cattle-yak (Bos taurus × Bos grunniens)

  • Yanping Ding 1 ,
  • Shiyuan Yu 1 ,
  • Baoping Shao , 2
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  • 1. School of Life Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730000, China
  • 2. Institute of Zoology, School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

Received date: 06 Jan 2016

Accepted date: 28 Mar 2016

Published date: 17 May 2016

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

This study presents the first definitive anatomical description of the tongue and lingual papillae of the cattle-yak. Data on tongues from 12 healthy cattle-yaks were collected. The results show that five types of papillae were identifiable on the tongue surface of the cattle-yak. Among these, three types were mechanical papillae (filiform, conical, and lenticular), and two types were gustatory papillae (vallate and fungiform). Some morphological features of the cattle-yak tongue were similar to those of domestic ruminants, but the lingual prominence was higher and more developed. For example, more mechanical papillae were present and they were covered by a thicker, keratinized epithelium, the conical papillae possibly perform an immune function, the fungiform papillae have more mucus-secreting pores, and the sublingual glands were more developed. This research will provide a further and detailed source of morphological information about the cattle-yak that is currently lacking in species-specific studies on the morphology of the Bovidae family.

Cite this article

Yanping Ding , Shiyuan Yu , Baoping Shao . Anatomical and histological characteristic of the tongue and tongue mucosa linguae in the cattle-yak (Bos taurus × Bos grunniens)[J]. Frontiers in Biology, 2016 , 11(2) : 141 -148 . DOI: 10.1007/s11515-016-1393-3

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Research Foundation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for financial support (Grant numbers: 31060141 and 31000190). The paper was also supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Lanzhou University.
Compliance with ethics guidelines
Yanping Ding, Shiyuan Yu and Baoping Shao declare that they have no conflict of interest. All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.
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