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The organization of skeletal and cardiac muscles of fishes described on the basis of observations carried out on several species of freshwater fishes (Tinca tinca, Misgurnus fossilis, Perca fluviatilis, Lebistes reticidatus) and marine fishes (Gobius minutus, Pleuronectes platessa, Ammodytes tobianus). Truncal, subcutaneous, extrinsic eye and cardiac muscles were used for study. Glutaraldehyde-fixed tissue was refixed in OsO4, embedded in Epon and after polymerization, cut into ultra thin sections and examined by an electron microscope.
White and red muscles were distinguished in the material examined. The latter was represented by subcutaneous muscles and small fibres of extrinsic eye muscles. Particular types of fibers differ from each other in their organization of the SR and localization of the T system tubules. In the most muscles the T system tubules are situated at the level of the Z line. In the small fibers of extrinsic eye muscles alone these tubules lie at the A-I junction.
The myocardiac cells consist of a cylindrically shaped myofibril. In the middle of the cylinder is the nucleus, the remaining space being filled with numerous mitochondria. A loose sarcoplasmic network is twined around the myofibril.
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Kilarski, W. The fine structure of striated muscles in teleosts. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung 79, 562–580 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00336313
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