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XB-ART-27327
Anat Rec 1988 Sep 01;2221:1-5. doi: 10.1002/ar.1092220102.
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The mouse pericardium: it allows passage of particulate matter from the pleural to the pericardial cavity.

Fukuo Y , Nakatani T , Shinohara H , Matsuda T .


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Frog erythrocytes injected into the pleural cavity of mice reached the pericardial cavity. Pericardial pores that connect the two cavities were the routes of the migration. As soon as 5 minutes after injection, frog erythrocytes were surrounded and phagocytosed by attached macrophages in milky spots facing the pericardial cavity. The pericardial pores may function in an allied self-defense mechanism between the pleural and pericardial cavities in this species.

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