...Tatsuo Motokawa; Yoshiro Fuchigami ABSTRACT Echinoderms have catch connective tissues that change their stiffness as a result of nervous control. The coordination between catch connective tissue and muscles was studied in the spine joint of the sea urchin Diadema setosum . Spine joints are equipped...

... depolarisation applied on anaesthetised specimens triggered a maximal yellow light emission from specific parapodial sites, suggesting that a nervous control pathway was involved. Pharmacological screening revealed a sensitivity to carbachol, which was confirmed by a dose–light response associated with a change...

... leaving intact control of the heart, via the right vagus. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 28 8 2008 2009 cardiovascular nervous control reptile Autonomic control of the cardiovascular system in reptiles has both sympathetic and parasympathetic...

... clearly shown that ophiuroids did not share a common mechanism of nervous control of luminescence in all species. *e-mail: [email protected] 2 1 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 echinoderm ophiuroid bioluminescence nervous control acetylcholine...

... of Biologists 1985 Molluscan muscles chromatophores nervous control octopus Eledone cirrhosa . The chromatic patterns of cephalopods are unique within the animal kingdom : they rely on chromatophores which are true organs made of a central pigment-containing cell (pigment cell) surrounded...

... 1983 © 1983 by Company of Biologists 1983 Nervous control salivary gland mollusc The salivary glands of gastropod and cephalopod molluscs have been the subject of a number of neurochemical (e.g. Erspamer, 1952), toxicological (e.g. Ghiretti, 1960), ultrastructural (e.g. Boer...