Development of the chemo- and mechanoreceptors of the tongue in mature-born animals (scanning electron microscopy)

Scanning electron microscopy was used to study developmental changes in the chemo- and mechanosensory apparatus of the tongue in guinea-pigs, goats and sheep during the 1st to the 10th postnatal week. The maturation of the chemosensitive postnatal formation of the mechanosensitive papillae was shown.