Submandibular gland histology.

<p>At 15 weeks of age submandibular glands from female (top panels) or males (bottom panels) were harvested and then fixed, wax embedded, sectioned, and stained with Masson’s trichrome as described in Methods. Images are representative of analyses of the 4 mice randomly selected from the >10 mice in each experimental group in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0071822#pone-0071822-g007" target="_blank">Figure 7</a>. 100 x Objective.