Morphological and functional aspects of the arrangement of connective tissue and muscle fibres in the tail of the Mexican axolotl,Siredon mexicanum(Shaw) (Amphibia, Urodela)
作者:
J.J. Willemse,
期刊:
Cells Tissues Organs
(Karger Available online 1977)
卷期:
Volume 97,
issue 3
页码: 266-285
ISSN:1422-6405
年代: 1977
DOI:10.1159/000144743
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Connective tissue;Muscle fibres;Axolotl tail
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
In the lateral musculature of the axolotl tail a multipennate arrangement of muscle fibres is found in the 3rd postanal myomere and all following myomeres. This arrangement appears in larval stages as soon as the myomeres concerned are fully differentiated. Within a myomere a uniform degree of contraction of the muscle fibres may be achieved either by helical arrangement as seen in Teleosts, by diminishing fibre length in medial direction or by a combination of both phenomena. The relation between muscle fibre length and angle of insertion in the myomeres showing pennate arrangement is approximated by the Benninghoff and Roll-häuser equation but the values recorded deviated systematically from the values calculated. In the rather slender tail of the axolotl the transition from the helical or parallel fibre system into the pennate arrangement will be in favour of the development of relatively strong bending moments in the region concerned while a reasonable uniformity of the rate of contraction is maintained
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