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Neuromuscular Transmission in the Heart of the Lobster Homarus americanus

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Comparative Physiology of the Heart: Current Trends

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Contractions of the single-chambered neurogenic lobster heart are produced by spontaneous bursts of impulses generated by neurons in the cardiac ganglion1,2*. In this study dangling microelectrodes were used to record intra-cellularly from single, striated cardiac muscle fibers of isolated lobster hearts.

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  1. T. H. Bullock and G. A. Horridge, Structure and Function in the Nervous Systems of Invertebrates. II (W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1965), p. 988–997.

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  2. D. M. Maynard, Circulation and Heart Function, in: The Physiology of Crustacea. I (Ed. T. H. Waterman; Academic Press, New York, 1960), p. 161–226.

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  1. The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

    Margaret Anderson & I. M. Cooke

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  1. Margaret Anderson
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  1. Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

    F. V. McCann

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Anderson, M., Cooke, I.M. (1969). Neuromuscular Transmission in the Heart of the Lobster Homarus americanus . In: McCann, F.V. (eds) Comparative Physiology of the Heart: Current Trends. Experientia Supplementum. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6800-6_11

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