Cardiovascular Function in Hagfishes

Abstract

1st ed. Introduction: Early hagfish research / Ragnar Fange -- Pt. 1. Evolution, Taxonomy and Ecology -- 1. Relationships of living and fossil hagfishes / David Bardack -- 2. Conodonts: a sister group to hagfishes? / Richard J. Aldridge and Philip C. J. Donoghue -- 3. Hagfish systematics / Bo Fernholm -- 4. Asian hagfishes and their fisheries biology / Yoshiharu Honma -- 5. ecology of hagfishes / Frederic H. Martini -- Pt. 2. Development and Pathology -- 6. Chromatin diminution and chromosome elimination in hagfishes / Sei-ichi Kohno, Souichirou Kubota and Yasuharu Nakai -- 7. tumour pathology of Myxine glutinosa / Sture Falkmer -- Pt. 3. Integument and Associated Glands -- 8. Hagfish skin and slime glands / Robert H. Spitzer and Elizabeth A. Koch -- 9. dermis / Ulrich Welsch, Simone Buchl and Rainer Erlinger -- Pt. 4. Supporting Tissues -- 10. notochord / 22. hagfish immune system / Robert L. Raison and Nicholas J. dos Remedios -- Pt. 9. Uro-genital System -- 23. hagfish kidney as a model to study renal physiology and toxicology / Luder M. Fels, Sabine Kastner and Hilmar Stolte -- 24. analysis of the function of the glomeruli of the hagfish mesonephric kidney / Jay A. Riegel -- 25. Gonads and reproduction in hagfishes / Robert A. Patzner -- Pt. 10. Endocrine System -- 26. endocrine system of hagfishes / Michael C. Thorndyke and Sture Falkmer -- 27. control of catecholamine secretion in hagfishes / Nicholas J. Bernier and Steve F. Perry -- Pt. 11. Nervous System -- 28. Ontogeny of the head and nervous system of myxinoids / Helmut Wicht and Udo Tusch -- 29. central nervous system of hagfishes / Mark Ronan and R. Glenn Northcutt -- 30. autonomic nervous system and chromaffin tissue in hagfishes / Stefan Nilsson and Susanne Holmgren -- Pt. 12. Sensory Organs -- 31. Skin sensory organs in the Atlantic hagfish Myxine glutinosa / Monika von During and Karl H. Andres -- 32. Cutaneous exteroreceptors and their innervation in hagfishes / Christopher B. Braun and R. Glenn Northcutt -- 33. olfactory system of hagfishes / Kjell B. Doving -- 34. eyes of hagfishes / N. Adam Locket and Jorgen Morup Jorgensen -- 35. Structure of the hagfish inner ear / Jorgen Morup Jorgensen -- 36. Physiology of the inner ear / Alistair R. McVean.