The Blood Vascular Architecture of the Salamander External Gill: A Scanning Electron Microscopic study of Corrosion Casts

• KATO Seiji

  Department of Anatomy, Medical College of Oita

• KURIHARA Kazushige

  Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus

抄録

The blood vascular architecture in three-paired external gills of salamander tadpoles, Hynobius dunni Tago, was demonstrated with special reference to metamorphosis by scanning electron microscopy of vascular corrosion casts. In the fully developed gill, each of the three-paired afferent branchial arteries gave off secondary afferent filament arterioles. The afferent filament arteriole drained toward the efferent filament arteriole, forming the loop at the posterior extremity of the gill filament. The branched capillaries from the afferent filament arteriole formed two plates of respiratory capillary networks with irregular honeycomb-shaped meshes. In addition, there were non-respiratory shunts as bypass of the blood circulation between the afferent and efferent branchial arteries without branching filament arterioles. Furthermore, the deep venous plexus and subepithelial capillary plexus were seen around each efferent branchial artery. The filament central venule in the central part of the filament merged into the venous plexus. Nutritive capillaries branched from efferent branchial arteries also drained toward the venous plexus. Such general vascular architecture is simpler than that of the fish. During metamorphosis, the pattern of the vascular distribution, especially filament net capillaries became irregular, and then markedly tortuous or convoluted blood vessels occurred in the absorbing gill. At the metamorphic climax, the capillary network practically disappeared in the remnant of the gill but the bypass shunt as a non-respiratory artery remained almost unchanged.

収録刊行物

• Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica

  Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica 66 (4), 171-193, 1989

  Editorial Board of Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica

キーワード

• External gill
• Microvasculature
• Corrosion casts
• Metamorphosis
• Salamander (Hynobius dunni Tago)

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205461223936
• NII論文ID: 130004650306
• DOI: 10.2535/ofaj1936.66.4_171
• COI: 1:STN:280:DyaK3c%2FksFeisg%3D%3D
• ISSN: 0030154X
• 本文言語コード: en
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