The structural correlate of saltatory conduction along the Mauthner axon in the tench (Tinca tinca L.): identification of nodal equivalents at the axon collaterals.

The spiny collaterals of the Mauthner axon were reinvestigated in the tench (Tinca tinca L.) with the electron microscope and special staining procedures. These collaterals, as demonstrated by intraaxonal labelling with lucifer yellow, are more or less regularly spaced (100-300 micrometers) and make synaptic contacts with processes of spinal motoneurons and interneurons.

Left ventricular function in patients with hypertrophic nonobstructive cardiomyopathy.

From 1970 to 1977 the diagnosis of hypertrophic, nonobstructive cardiomyopathy was made by clinical, echocardiographic and hemodynamic findings in 13 patients (2 females and 11 males). Echocardiography showed asymmetric septal hypertrophy in 10 of the 12 evaluated patients (83%) and symmetric hypertrophy of the septum and the posterior wall in 2 patients (17%). Systolic anterior motion of the anterior mitral leaflet was found in 5 patients (42%) although there was no obstruction of the outflow tract.