Histochemical localization of lipid in the respiratory muscles of a fresh water air-breathing siluroid fish, Clarias batrachus (Linn.)
Saha, M.P.; Pandey, P.K.; Ojha, J.; Munshi, J.S.
Zeitschrift für Mikroskopisch-Anatomische Forschung 90(2): 290-301
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-3107 PMID: 1023556 Document Number: 101076
The muscles innervated by the facialis (VII) nerve contain more lipid than those innervated by the trigeminal (V). The muscles directly concerned with the opercular suction pumps (inferior and superior hyohyoideus, adductor, levator and dilator operculi) have more pumps. The retractor tentaculi, associated with the movements of barbels, also have a large quantity of lipid droplets.