Pinealectomy in rat: an illustrative case

Mehmet Senoglu

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.

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