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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Morphological Sciences 2018; 35(04): 207-211
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1675617
Review Article
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Is the Tubular Nervous System Related with the Development of Skeletal Muscle in Chordates? – A Review

Rajani Singh
1   Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttrakhand, India
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29 March 2017

06 September 2018

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06 November 2018 (online)

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Abstract

Many theories and arguments have been proposed regarding the ancestors of the vertebrates and the factors that lead to the evolution of the tubular nervous system. Invertebrates had simpler smooth muscles. Vertebrates acquired additional skeletal muscles. The skeletal muscles were found to be associated with a new type of tubular nervous system. There were three stages in the evolution of the nervous system. The most primitive was the network type, in which there was neither a polarization nor a centralization of neurons. The second stage was characterized by the evolution of a ganglionic nervous system. Then, the tubular type of nervous system appeared for the first time in chordates. Therefore, the author hypothesizes that the skeletal muscle developed simultaneously with the tubular nervous system. The chorda mesoderm and, thereby, the skeletal muscle, induced the formation of a tubular nervous system in chordates. In the present article, the author aims to analyze the nervous system, starting from invertebrates and moving on to chordates.

Keywords

nervous system - skeletal muscle - chordates - mesoderm
 

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