Electron microscopy of sheep myocardial cells demonstrated a transverse tubular system communicating with the extracellular space, providing a possible pathway for impulse transmission.
An electron microscope study of sheep myocardial cells has demonstrated the presence of a transverse tubular system, apparently forming a network across the cell at each Z band level. The walls of these tubules resemble the sarcolemma in consisting of two dense layers-plasma membrane and basement menbrane; continuity of the tubule walls with the sarcolemma can be seen when longitudinal sections of a cell are obtained between two subsarcolemmal myofibrils and at the same time perpendicular to the cell surface. The demonstration of communication between the lumen of the transverse tubular system and the extracellular space appears to be more definite in this study than in any work hitherto published. It provides anatomical evidence of a possible direct pathway for transmission of the activating impulse from the sarcolemma to the myofibril Z bands.
Simpson et al. (Mon,) conducted a other in Sheep myocardial cells. Electron microscopy of sheep myocardial cells demonstrated a transverse tubular system communicating with the extracellular space, providing a possible pathway for impulse transmission.
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