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The endothelia of Tubifex tubifex Müller consist of myoendothelial cells, chloragocytes, or podocytes. The latter seem to occur only as windows on the ventral vessel which has an endothelium of myoendothelial cells elsewhere. The podocytes are large cells, with several processes on the inner side which ramify into several pedicels. These are aligned upon the outside of the basement membrane which lines the inside of the endothelium. The gaps between adjacent pedicels are about 40 nm wide. In capillaries fenestrated endothelia occur with irregular spacings measuring up to 0.4–1 μm. A diaphragm in podocytes or capillary fenestrations do not seem to exist. The basement membrane is the only continuous layer lining the blood vessels and capillaries of Tubifex with a rather uniform diameter in the range of 50 nm. It is the only permeability barrier between blood and coelomic fluid.
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Peters, W. Possible sites of ultrafiltration in Tubifex tubifex Müller (Annelida, Oligochaeta). Cell Tissue Res. 179, 367–375 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221107
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