Reproductive System, Female

Clitoral Gland - Pigment

    Narrative
    Clitoral gland - Pigment in a female B6C3F1/N mouse from a chronic study. Pigment is evident in the stroma adjacent to dilated ducts.
    Clitoral gland - Pigment in a female B6C3F1/N mouse from a chronic study (higher magnification of Figure 1). The dilated ducts contain a small number of cells with brown, granular, cytoplasmic pigment and some pale-staining eosinophilic debris, and the stroma surrounding the glands also contains some dark-staining materials.

    Authors

    Gabrielle Willson, BVMS, Dip RC Path, FRC Path, MRCVS
    Senior Pathologist
    Experimental Pathology Laboratories, Inc.
    Research Triangle Park, NC

    Karen Y. Cimon, DVM, MS
    Senior Pathologist
    Experimental Pathology Laboratories, Inc.
    Research Triangle Park, NC

    Gordon Flake, MD
    Staff Scientist
    NTP Pathologist
    Cellular and Molecular Pathology Branch
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    Research Triangle Park, NC

    Reviewers

    Karen S. Regan, DVM, DABT, DACVP
    Pathologist
    Regan Path/Tox Services, Inc.
    Ashland, OH  

    Darlene Dixon, DVM, PhD, DACVP, Fellow, IATP
    Group Leader, Molecular Pathogenesis Group
    National Toxicology Program Laboratory
    National Toxicology Program
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC