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

Table 2

Morphological comparison of the rat and human liver.

Rat liver	Human liver
Six lobes of the liver	No clear morphological division of the lobes
Dividing of caudate lobe is obvious	No clear subdivision of the caudate lobe
Weight 5% of the total body weight	Weight 2,5% of the total body weight
Gall bladder is absent	Gall bladder is present