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If one were to attempt a study of the invertebrate heart muscle, the preparation which would immediately come to mind would be the classical clam heart preparation. Almost 30 years ago Prosser 1* discovered that the venus heart was extremely sensitive to acetylcholine. Subsequently Welsh 2,3 used the heart of the Venus mercenaria as a tool for the bioassay of acetylcholine and its analogs and also for the study of the pharmacology and mechanisms of cardio-regulation. Recently Greenberg 4 examined more than 40 different bivalve hearts for their response to acetylcholine. Many of the physiological studies on these muscles have been summarized by Krijgsman and Divaris 5 and more recently by Hill and Welsh 6.
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Irisawa, H., Irisawa, A., Shigeto, N. (1969). Effects of Na+ and Ca++ on the Spontaneous Excitation of the Bivalve Heart Muscle. 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_15
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