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Comparative ultrastructural and cytochemical analysis of the cephalopod systemic heart and its innervation

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The present knowledge of the morphology of cephalopod central hearts is presented. The cytological characteristics of the epicardial, myocardial and endothelial tissue layers are reviewed. Myocardial cells are characterized as obliquely striated myocytes with a high level of oxidative metabolism. The voluminous myocardium is intensively penetrated by nerve fibers controlling the myogenic heart rhythm by different chemical transmitter systems. Catecholaminergic fluorophores and acetylcholinesterase activity could be localized by means of histochemical and cytochemical investigations. A glio-interstitial cell system is shown to be present in connection with nerve fibers and also uncombined between heart muscle cells. Its content of large different-sized inclusions is described and their function discussed.

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Kling, G., Schipp, R. Comparative ultrastructural and cytochemical analysis of the cephalopod systemic heart and its innervation. Experientia 43, 502–511 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02143579

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