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Studies on the intrinsic innervation of the anterior byssal retractor muscle (ABRM) in Mytilus edulis L. were continued at the ultrastructural level. Electron micrographs show nerve processes ensheathed by glio-interstitial cells running between muscle fibers. The glio-interstitial cells may represent all the types of osmiophilic cells previously described by the light microscopic ZIO technique in the anterior byssal retractor muscle.
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Gilloteaux, J. Innervation of the anterior byssal retractor muscle in Mytilus edulis L.. Cell Tissue Res. 161, 511–519 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00224141
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