Scanning electron microscope observations on the muscle innervation of Oikopleura dioica fol (appendicularia, tunicata) with notes on the arrangement of connective tissue fibres
Scanning electron microscope observations on the muscle innervation of Oikopleura dioica fol (appendicularia, tunicata) with notes on the arrangement of connective tissue fibres
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扫描电子显微镜观察 Oikopleura dioica fol(阑尾、被囊)的肌肉神经支配,并记录结缔组织纤维的排列
DOI:
10.1007/bf00223014
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发表时间:
1975
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
P. Flood
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作者:
P. Flood
Critical point dried and fractured appendicularia of the speciesOikopleura dioicahave been examined in the scanning electron microscope. The dorsal nerve cord with ganglion cells and peripheral nerve fibres could easily be observed. Thick peripheral nerve fibres leave the nerve cord as bilateral pairs at constant intervals along the tail. Most of these fibres branch from the naked nerve cord, but some evidently originate in ganglion perikarya bulging out from the nerve cord itself. These paired peripheral nerves always have elaborate end-arborizations on the medial surface of the lateral muscle cells. They are accordingly interpreted as motor axons. Some thinner peripheral nerve fibres originate at irregular intervals from both the nerve cord and the ganglion cells. Due to the numerous extracellular fibrils that connect the bilateral layers of the epidermal fins and the muscle cells to each other, these thin nerve fibres can seldom be traced to their termination. A few ones can, however, be traced ventrally between the notochord and the muscle cells and seem to end in singular bulb-like expansions. Clusters of synaptic vesicles are present in transmission electron micrographs of such nerves, and they are accordingly believed to carry efferent impulses. The extracellular fibrils are arranged in a highly ordered pattern with thick bundles crossing the gap between the structures to be interconnected and with numerous radiating insertions on the surface of the tissues.