Salivary Gland - Inflammation - Gallery
Salivary gland - Inflammation, Acute in a male F344/N rat from a subchronic study. There is widespread destruction of the salivary tissue with abundant inflammatory cells.
Salivary gland - Inflammation, Acute in a male F344/N rat from a subchronic study (higher magnification of Figure 1). The inflammatory cells are mainly neutrophils, and there is necrosis of the glandular tissue (arrow).
Salivary gland - Inflammation, Suppurative in a female B6C3F1 mouse from a chronic study. There are areas of inflammation with necrosis surrounded by fibrosis (arrow), characteristic of an abscess.
Salivary gland - Inflammation, Suppurative in a female B6C3F1 mouse from a chronic study (higher magnification of Figure 3). The inflammatory cells are mainly degenerate neutrophils surrounding large colonies of bacteria (arrow), which are surrounded by fibrosis.
Salivary gland - Inflammation, Granulomatous in a male B6C3F1 mouse from a chronic study. An entire lobe is replaced by granulomatous inflammation (arrows).
Salivary gland - Inflammation, Granulomatous in a male B6C3F1 mouse from a chronic study (higher magnification of Figure 5). The inflammation is characterized by the presence of multinucleated giant cells (arrow) and numerous epithelioid macrophages (arrowhead).
