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- Title
Complex Sensory Corpuscles in the Upper Jaw of Horsfield's Tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii).
- Authors
Buchtová, Marcela; Páč, Libor; Knotek, Zdeněk; Tichý, František
- Abstract
The sensory corpuscles of Testudo horsfieldii in the skin of the upper lip and face were studied with light and electron microscopy. The sensory corpuscles were situated under epidermis; in the corium and also between the upper jaw bone tissues in the rostral part of oral cavity. The skin sensory corpuscles with a ramified inner core were grouped in clusters. Within the corpuscle there were several simple inner cores embedded within a common superficial capsule. The complex corpuscles have a novel structure in comparison to what has been described for sensory nerve endings in turtle. The complex sensory corpuscles probably function as mechanoreceptors important for monitoring the movement of the keratinized ridges and the most rostral part of the upper jaw, the rhamphotheci.
- Subjects
VETERINARY anatomy; TESTUDINIDAE; ELECTRON microscopy; BLOOD cells; SENSORY neurons
- Publication
Acta Veterinaria Brno, 2009, Vol 78, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
0001-7213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2754/avb200978020193