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Wound healing in Eisenia foetida (Oligochaeta)

II. A fine structural study of the role of the epidermis

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Both anterior wounds (first eight segments removed) and shallow body wall wounds in Eisenia foetida are definitively closed by migration of epidermal columnar cells which undergo few morphological changes in the process. Epidermal basal cells do not contribute directly to wound epithelialization, but they enter the plug of cells which acts as the substratum for the columnar cells and function mainly as phagocytes. Epidermal gland cells, which also do not contribute to wound covering, degenerate and are phagocytized at the wound margins. The gland cells which re-form in the new wound epithelium probably arise from columnar cells. There is no change in the epidermal basement lamella during healing, but epidermal cuticle synthesis is stimulated. In the outer region of the forming cuticle the fiber bundles become disorganized and in the inner region fine filaments and larger, faintly striated fibers are laid down. The number of columnar cell microvilli, which may be involved in cuticle organization, increases after injury.

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I thank Dr. H. E. Potswald for his guidance and for his criticisms of the manuscript. This study is part of a thesis submitted to the University of Massachusetts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy. It was supported by a National Defense Education Act Title IV Graduate fellowship and by Grant GB 18429 awarded to Dr. H. E. Potswald by the National Science Foundation.

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Burke, J.M. Wound healing in Eisenia foetida (Oligochaeta). Cell Tissue Res. 154, 61–82 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221072

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