Journal article

Publication year: 1981

Pages: 585-596

Journal: Cell and Tissue Research

Volume number: 219

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0302-766X

eISSN: 1432-0878

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
The renal appendages of tetrabranchiate cephalopods, N. pompilius (L.) and N. macromphalus (G.B. Sow.), were studied using light-microscopical and EM methods. The appendages, homologous to the renal appendages of dibranchiate cephalopods, possess in both species a folded transporting epithelium characterized by a secreting brush border and a high content of mitochondria and lysosome-like dense bodies and a basal labyrinth, and are separated from the blood lacunae by a multilayered lamina basalis. In the extracellular crypt-like infoldings of the epithelium, numerous concentric stratified concrements are found. These concrements probably represent mineral-storage structures only found in Ca shell-supporting species within the class Cephalopoda.

Harvard Citation style: SCHIPP, R. and MARTIN, A. (1981) CYTOLOGY OF THE RENAL APPENDAGES OF NAUTILUS (CEPHALOPODA, TETRABRANCHIATA), Cell and Tissue Research, 219(3), pp. 585-596

APA Citation style: SCHIPP, R., & MARTIN, A. (1981). CYTOLOGY OF THE RENAL APPENDAGES OF NAUTILUS (CEPHALOPODA, TETRABRANCHIATA). Cell and Tissue Research. 219(3), 585-596.