1MVSc scholar, Department of Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookode, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Wayanad - 670 643 (Kerala)
2Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookode, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Wayanad - 670 643 (Kerala)
3Assistant professor, Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Histology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookode, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Wayanad - 670 643 (Kerala)
*Corresponding author; E-mail: sooryadas@kvasu.ac.in
Online Published on 14 September, 2022.
Presence of minor salivary glands in the oral mucosa and its potential use as an autograft for treating dry eye disease has been widely reported in humans. But there is a paucity of literature regarding the histological evidence for presence of minor salivary glands in the oral mucosa of dogs. The study histologically identified and clinically evaluated the presence of minor salivary glands in the oral mucosa of six dogs, as a potential autograft for kerato-conjunctivitis sicca. The samples were harvested from buccal mucosa (lower canine to third premolar area) for the transplantation. The autograft was transplanted in a fusiform wound created in the superior conjunctival fornix and was clinically evaluated. A portion of the autografts was processed for routine paraffin embedding, 5 &m sections were taken and stained using Hematoxyline and Eosin. Histological examination revealed exocrine, compound, tubulo-acinar glands and secretion was mixed type.
Autograft, Canine, Kerato-conjunctivitis sicca, Minor salivary glands
