Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ataturk Universitesi Veteriner Bilimleri Dergisi, cilt.14, sa.2, ss.137-141, 2019 (Scopus)
© 2019 Ataturk Universitesi. All rights reserved.It is essential to demonstrate organs and their structures practically in anatomy education. Plastination is an anatomical technique that has been used to prepare biological specimens for educational purposes. it is a gradual process by replacement of fluids in biological tissues with reactive polymers such as silicone, epoxy or polyester resin. This study was aimed to plastinate the internal genital organs of adult cows by S10B silicone plastination method. Ten internal genital organs of cows were plastinated to be used in veterinary undergraduate teaching/practices. After dissection and fixation, the specimens were plastinated with S10B plastination method and colour differentiation of the organ parts were measured. The plastination process was completed with dehydration, defatting, impregnation, and gas curing stages, respectively. It was observed that the plastination of specimens with S10B plastination method preserve normal anatomy of genital organs. It was estimated that all parts of uterus became greenish and bluish colour and the value of the brightness of uterus was increased. The tissue shrinkage was reduced considerably when dehydration was carried out in a cold environment. It was concluded that S10B plastination method can be easily used to prepare the specimens of genital organs to be used in veterinary teaching.