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Autoradiography has been applied to two acoel turbellarians, Convoluta convoluta and Oxyposthia praedator, to determine the distribution and fate of proliferative cells. In C. convoluta, mitotic figures and nuclei that labelled with [3H]thymidine could be observed in the peripheral parenchyma but not in the middle zone of the central parenchyma. The time required for regeneration of physiologically competent digestive cells was about 10-15 days. In O. praedator, mitotic figures (in metaphase and telophase) were observed in the peripheral parenchyma while none were found in the epidermis either in untreated animals or after treatment with colchicine. Mitotic figures were found only rarely in the central parenchyma and only in its marginal zone. Autoradiographs of O. praedator demonstrated [3H]thymidine incorporation into both the nuclei and the cytoplasm of peripheral parenchymal cells. In the central parenchyma, no nuclei with primary labelling were observed. The digestive parenchyma of the acoels is regarded as a unique histological system involving both specialized cells of the central parenchyma and stem cells located in the peripheral parenchyma.
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Drobysheva, I.M. (1986). Physiological regeneration of the digestive parenchyma in Convoluta convoluta and Oxyposthia praedator (Turbellaria, Acoela). In: Tyler, S. (eds) Advances in the Biology of Turbellarians and Related Platyhelminthes. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4810-5_26
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