Absence of Troponin in Foot Muscle of Surf Clam Pseudocardium sachalinensis.

Response Heterogeneity in Adductor Muscle Efferents of the Surf Clam*

Neuromuscular control in the Mollusca presents numerous interesting problems to the comparative physiologist. Among these are the extent of polyneural and multiterminal innervation, the possibility of peripheral inhibition, and the anatomical basis for wholly peripheral reflex activities. Perhaps in no area are the problems more intriguing—and the experimental results more equivocal—than with r...

Centrosome-associated RNA in surf clam oocytes.

Centrosomes are the major microtubule-organizing center in animal cells. They are composed of a pair of [9(3) + 0] centrioles surrounded by a relatively ill-defined pericentriolar matrix, provide the ciliary centriole-kinetosome (basal body) progenitor, and organize the assembly of microtubules into the mitotic spindle during cell division. Despite >100 years of microscopic observation and thei...

Isolation of Spindles from the Surf Clam Spisula Solidissima

Nerve pathways and reflex siphon withdrawal in the surf clam.

Serum troponin I as an indicator of myocarditis in lambs affected with foot and mouth disease

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease of cloven-hooved livestock and wildlife results to relatively high mortality in young animals. Despite the numerous reports of FMD-related death in neonates, there is little data available on various aspects of FMD in lambs. This report describes myocarditis associated with FMD in five, one week to three months old lambs. The lam...