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Pinealectomy in rat: an illustrative case
2 Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery and Anatomy, Kahramanmaras, Turkey
Received: 12-Feb-2009 Accepted Date: Apr 01, 2009; Published: 02-Apr-2009
Citation: © IJAV. 2009; 2:43–44.
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Abstract
The pineal body is known to be a vital component in the regulation of seasonal reproduction. The pineal complex may consist of two parts in rats, i.e. the small deep pineal and the large superficial pineal. As commonly used techniques of pinealectomy remove the superficial pineal only, we illustrated the surgical technique for pinealectomy on our rat specimen in this report.
