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Sublingual Gland Acini

This is a high power image through the mucicarmine-stained sublingual gland seen in the preceding image (# 28). Several mucous-secreting acini (*) with flattened basal nuclei (A) drain into a common inter-calated duct (B).


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A - basal nuclei of mucous cell
B - intercalated duct

* - mucous acini

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