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  2. Adolph Eduard Grube - Wikipedia

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    He graduated in 1830 and continued to work on a doctorate with a dissertation on the vascular system of frogs in 1834. He then travelled to Italy and Sicily. He habilitated in 1836 at the University of Königsberg (then in Prussia) and became an associate professor in 1843. He married Józefina Schäfer, daughter of a Warsaw factory owner.

  3. Water vascular system - Wikipedia

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    The water vascular system is a hydraulic system used by echinoderms, such as sea stars and sea urchins, for locomotion, food and waste transportation, and respiration. [1] The system is composed of canals connecting numerous tube feet. Echinoderms move by alternately contracting muscles that force water into the tube feet, causing them to ...

  4. Frog - Wikipedia

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    Frogs have served as experimental animals throughout the history of science. Eighteenth-century biologist Luigi Galvani discovered the link between electricity and the nervous system by studying frogs. He created one of the first tools for measuring electric current out of a frog leg. [223]

  5. You can see organs through the skin of this funky frog - AOL

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    The frog's skin is green on top, but the skin on the glass frog's stomach is just as translucent as its name suggests. You can even see its organs through the skin, especially its heart, liver ...

  6. Lymph heart - Wikipedia

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    A lymph heart is an organ which pumps lymph in lungfishes, amphibians, reptiles, and flightless birds back into the circulatory system. [1] [2] In some amphibian species, lymph hearts are in pairs, and may number as many as 200 in one animal the size of a worm, while newts and salamanders have as many as 16 to 23 pairs of lymph hearts.

  7. Glass frog - Wikipedia

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    The glass frog's transparent skin allows an external view of the viscera—the internal organs present in the body's main cavity—making it so observers can witness the frog's internal processes, such as the heart beating and pumping blood through its arteries. Patterning of glass frogs is varied amongst different species, while some appear as ...

  8. Renal portal system - Wikipedia

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    In lungfish and tetrapods, the renal portal vein is joined by a vein traveling upwards from the abdominal vein, [4] which can bring venous blood from the hind limbs and ventral body wall into the renal portal system, or alternatively, enable blood from the tail and groin to pass into the hepatic portal system, already served by blood from the gut, via the hepatic portal vein, and from the hind ...

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