Scanning electron microscopy of microcorrosion casts; intracranial and abdominal microvasculature in domestic animals
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Anatomy
- Vol. 153 (4) , 523-536
- https://doi.org/10.1002/aja.1001530404
Abstract
The use of methyl methacrylate corrosion casts prepared from portions of the vascular system has made it possible to examine numerous and extensive areas of microscopic structures on a 3‐dimensional scale with the scanning electron microscope. By this means we have examined the arterial microvasculature of intracranial vessels among three domestic animal species. In addition, these vessels have been compared with the terminal branches of abdominal arteries in the dog. The results of this study suggest that the sphincteric control mechanisms of the vessels in the two regions may be structurally different from one another.In the case of the intracranial vessels, the terminal portion of the arteriole is continued by a precapillary arteriole composed of a chain‐like series of muscular constrictions. This is most suitably described as a precapillary sphincter area, which terminates at the capillary. In the abdominal vessels, the precapillary arteriole is generally followed by a single precapillary sphincter at the origin of the capillary. These morphological characteristics may account, in part, for the difference in response of vessels in these two regions in hypovolemic shock.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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