What is it about?
The hard palate in the goats could be divided into a rostral narrow part and a caudal wide part with about 12–15 transverse palatine ridges. The dental pad replaced the upper incisors; its caudal border had a serrated appearance. At higher magnification, the epithelial surface of the palatine rugae and incisive papilla revealed a variety in the shape of the microplicae and the pattern of the micropits.
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Why is it important?
It is important to study the morphology of the goat's hard palate to understand the evolution of goat's oral cavity and its role in ingestion, mastication and swallowing. To our knowledge, this is the first study showed the detailed anatomical description of the hard palate of the goat with SEM.
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This page is a summary of: Morphological study of the hard palate in the Egyptian goats (Capra hircus
): A scanning electron microscopic study, Anatomia Histologia Embryologia, June 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ahe.12366.
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