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Morphological study of muscular tissue collagen of wild and reared Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774)

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Pages 6-13 | Received 14 Apr 2012, Accepted 06 Jul 2012, Published online: 08 Mar 2013
 

Abstract

Muscular tissue collagen fibrils’ diameter and period of reared and wild snails (Cornu aspersum) were measured in order to investigate the role of nutrition on the collagen. Wild adult individuals were collected from Crete (Greece) and compared with adult individual snails reared under laboratory conditions fed a formulated diet. Transmission electron microscope and image analysis algorithms were used in the study. Statistically significant differences between the diameters of the collagen fibrils in the reared and the wild snails were found, and the D-period of the fibrils differed.

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