Surgical Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Its Vasculature in the Laboratory Rat

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Rat stomach</td><td align="center">Human stomach</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Semilunar shaped sac</td><td align="center">Pear-shaped sac</td></tr><tr><td align="left"><i>Fundus ventriculi</i> forms blind ventricular sac</td><td align="center">Only simple <i>fundus ventriculi </i></td></tr><tr><td align="left">The mucous membrane is divided into glandular part and nonglandular part </td><td align="center">The mucous membrane is simple and consists of glandular part</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Weight 1,8% of the total body weight</td><td align="center">Weight 6,2% of the total body weight</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Long celiac trunk</td><td align="center">Short celiac trunk</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Morphological comparison of the rat and human stomach.

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Table 1: Surgical Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Its Vasculature in the Laboratory Rat 