Gross morphology, histomorphology and histomorphometry of the jejunum in the adult river buffalo

Summary For this study the jejuni of 50 adult (2-4 years), apparently healthy Iranian river buffaloes were collected from the abattoir for gross morphology, histomorphology, and histomorphometry. Our statistical analysis revealed that, there are significant (P 0.05) in lengths as well as thicknesses of jejunal villi between the 3 different regions. The mast cells distributions were highly significant (P<0.001) between the superficial and deep regions of jejunal tunicae mucosae in all buffaloes. There were also highly significant (P<0.001) differences in the distribution of goblet cells between the superficial and deep regions of jejunal mucosa, and their population was more in the superficial than in the deep region.