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Morphological changes in the developing alimentary canal: A review by scanning electron microscopy

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Ultrastructure of the Digestive Tract

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The complex series of developmental events leading to the mature alimentary mucosa in higher mammals has interested investigators for over a century (1). Villi in the small intestine were discovered as early as 1861 by von Kölliker and somewhat later in 1868 in the developing large intestine by Barth. But systematic studies of the developmental process did not get underway until the twentieth century when Hilton (2) described the ontogeny of a large number of species in his doctoral thesis. Attention was turned somewhat later to a series of human embryos by Johnson (3,4).

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    P. M. Motta M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Department of Anatomy, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

    H. Fujita M.D.

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Lim, SS., Low, F.N. (1988). Morphological changes in the developing alimentary canal: A review by scanning electron microscopy. In: Motta, P.M., Fujita, H., Correr, S. (eds) Ultrastructure of the Digestive Tract. Electron Microscopy in Biology and Medicine, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2071-5_1

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