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Model of peristalsis in the dorsal blood vessel of Lumbriculus variegatus (Halfmann and Crisp 2011)
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The blackworm, Lumbriculus variegatus, has a segmented dorsal blood vessel that acts as a peristaltic pump to move blood through its closed circulatory system. Here, we conducted a kinematic study using videography and computational modeling as a first step toward understanding the control of DBV pulsation. A simple feed-forward system of distributed, coupled neuronal oscillators is a sufficient model was a sufficient model to explain the control of pulsation in the blackworm.
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kameko-halfmann@uiowa.edu
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Halfmann, K., & Crisp, K. (2011). A kinematic study of pulsation in the dorsal blood vessel of the blackworm, Lumbriculus variegatus. Impulse, <http://impulse.appstate.edu/abstract-halfmann-crisp>
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