Rosati C, Caputo G
Istituto di Strutture Biologiche ed Ultrastruttura Cellulare, Facoltà di Medicina, Università Federico II di Napoli.
Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper. 1995 Jan-Feb;71(1-2):21-6.
The morphology of the lobar artery branches of the guinea pig lung was examined by optical microscopy and by the scanning electron microscope. Our results demonstrate that these branches consistently present a "rosary-like" structure that had been previously observed only occasionally in specimens of various organs from different animals. The function of these "bead-like" structures seems to be that of a control system of the blood flow to the lung alveoli, rather than that of a "pumping heart", as postulated previously by other authors.
通过光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜对豚鼠肺叶动脉分支的形态进行了检查。我们的结果表明，这些分支始终呈现出一种“念珠状”结构，这种结构以前仅偶尔在来自不同动物的各种器官标本中观察到。这些“珠状”结构的功能似乎是作为肺肺泡血流的控制系统，而不是如其他作者先前假设的“泵血心脏”的功能。
