LUZMARINA HERNANDES*, LUCIENI CRISTINA MARQUES DA SILVA PEREIRA*, ELIANA PARISI ALVARES**
BIOCELL, Vol.27, No.3, pp. 347-351, 2003, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2003.27.347
Abstract The enteric nervous system plays a role on the stimulation of secretory cells of intestinal epithelia. We have demonstrated that ablation of ENS stimulates epithelial cell proliferation. As goblet cells are important constituents of the epithelial sheet, it is mandatory to investigate separately this cell type. The myenteric plexus of the ileum of rats in postnatal development was partially removed by the serosal application of benzalkonium chloride (BAC). Three groups of animals were used: those where BAC application was at 13 days and sacrifice was at 15 (13/28-day-old) or 23 days after treatment (13/36-day-old), and More >