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Ultrastructural studies have been performed upon the posterior coxal depressor muscle (136) and a coxal branch of the main depressor group (135d′) from the mesocoxa of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. The quantitative stereometric analyses performed have shown the latter muscle to consist of a dorsal band of fibers having 25.5% mitochondria and 13.6% sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and T-tubules (TTS), and a ventral group of fibers with only 4.4% mitochondria and 26.6% SR/TTS. The volume fractions characteristic of the ventral fibers of muscle 135 d′ are also typical of muscle 136.
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This work was supported by a grant from the McCandless Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, to D.R. Stokes
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Morgan, C.R., Stokes, D.R. Ultrastructural heterogeneity of the mesocoxal muscles of Periplaneta americana . Cell Tissue Res. 201, 305–314 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00235066
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