Research Article
Surgical Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Its Vasculature in the Laboratory Rat
Table 1
Morphological comparison of the rat and human stomach.
| Rat stomach | Human stomach |
| Semilunar shaped sac | Pear-shaped sac | Fundus ventriculi forms blind ventricular sac | Only simple fundus ventriculi | The mucous membrane is divided into glandular part and nonglandular part | The mucous membrane is simple and consists of glandular part | Weight 1,8% of the total body weight | Weight 6,2% of the total body weight | Long celiac trunk | Short celiac trunk |
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