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Physiological Roles of the Secondary Circulatory System in Fish

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Mechanisms of Systemic Regulation

Part of the book series: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology ((COMPARATIVE,volume 21))

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Most studies of the secondary circulation or the “secondary vascular system” (Vogel 1981; Vogel and Claviez 1981) have concentrated on descriptions of morphology, rather than function, among various species (see Steffensen and Lomholt 1992). The scarce available evidence at this time characterizes the secondary vascular system in fishes as being a pool of blood which is low in pressure, low in red cell content, absent from the muscle tissues, associated with both the inner and outer surfaces of body including the gills, and of a volume that approaches or exceeds that of the primary circulation. Vogel (1985a) demonstrated the occurrence of an extremely dense capillary network of the secondary system over the scales of trout and tilapia. Satchell (1991) pointed out that similar vascularization on the scales had been observed for both freshwater and seawater teleosts in old anatomical literatures (Jakubowski 1960a,b, 1989; Kaczmarski 1966; Tyszkiewicz 1969), while it is not always clear whether such capillary networks belong to either the primary or secondary vascular system. A similar subepithelial vascular network has also been observed in the Atlantic hagfish Myxine glutinosa (Lametschwandtner et al. 1989). Vogel (1985a) also stated that secondary capillary networks are distributed in the mucous membrane of the mouth and the peritoneum, and possibly in the intestinal wall. The central venous sinus (CVS) which is located within the primary lamella of the gill is currently considered to be part of the secondary vascular system (Vogel 1985a).

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  1. Nomo Fisheries Station, Nagasaki University, Nomozaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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  2. Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

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  3. Department of Animal Physiology, Humboldt University at Berlin, D-10115, Berlin, Germany

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  4. Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin, D-37075, Göttingen, Germany

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Ishimatsu, A., Iwama, G.K., Heisler, N. (1995). Physiological Roles of the Secondary Circulatory System in Fish. In: Heisler, N. (eds) Mechanisms of Systemic Regulation. Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79666-1_10

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