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Ultrastructural changes in myocardial fibers of a mollusc, Pomacea urceus, during aestivation

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The myocardium of the mollusc Pomacea urceus consists mainly of smooth muscle cells. These cells in aestivating animals differ from those in active animals in an extensive mitochondrial degeneration, decrease in myofilaments and the presence of glycogenosomes.

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  1. Dpto. de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

    Alicia Jiménez-Tabata,  Hector J. Finol & Rafael Martínez E.

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Jiménez-Tabata, A., Finol, H.J. & Martínez E., R. Ultrastructural changes in myocardial fibers of a mollusc, Pomacea urceus, during aestivation. Cell Tissue Res. 242, 677–679 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00225437

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