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The Function of the Heart-Body in Polychaetes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. Y. Kennedy  and
R. Phillips Dales
G. Y. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Cancer Research Unit, University of Sheffield,
R. Phillips Dales
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Bedford College, London
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The heart-bodies and some other tissues of a number of polychaetes have been examined chemically, and the porphyrin pigments from these tissues described. Coproporphyrin III was shown to be present in relatively large concentration in all the heart-bodies, together with traces of coproporphyrin I, a tricarboxylic porphyrin and protohaematin. The body wall of light (pink) and dark (brown) coloured Arenicola and of Amphitrite also contained these pigments in varying amounts. Other non-porphyrin pigments were also seen in the body wall of some animals, the most remarkable being a colourless compound with a bright blue-fluorescence occurring in Flabelligera. Evidence is presented which supports the view that the heart-body is an haematopoietic organ, and the significance of this is discussed. Parallels are drawn between the occurrence of free porphyrins in marine animals and the occurrence of such pigments in porphyrias in man.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 1958 , pp. 15 - 31
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1958

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