The contribution of the aortic branches in the vascularization of cervical regions, during the development of the nine banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus, L. 1758)

ABSTRACT

The work describes the origen, branching and distribution of aortic branches, during the development of the armadillho, experimental model in the studt of human leprosy. Using contrast injection, the branches of the subclavial, common carotid and omocervical aa. were identified as to its cooperation in irrigation of the ventral, lateral, dorsal, costal cervicals regions, encephalic and the thyroid gland