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On the Structure and Contraction of Striped Muscular Fibre of the Crab and Lobster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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(abstract)

The author gave an account of the microscopical appearances of striped muscle of the crab and lobster. The muscle of the crab and lobster is suitable for investigation because of the comparatively large size of the structural elements, and the readiness with which the sarcous matter can be fixed and otherwise prepared in different conditions. The author is entirely opposed to the opinions expressed by Melland, and more recently by Gehuchten, regarding the structure of the sarcous matter, and maintains, as he did at the International Medical Congress in 1881 (Transactions International Medical Congress, 1881, vol. i. p. 270), that the sarcous matter essentially consists of contractile fibrils, with an interstitial substance between them—an opinion previously expressed by Kölliker and others, and recently supported by Rollett.

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Proceedings 1889-90
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1891

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