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HUGHES has recently reported a portal blood supply to aorticopulmonary glomus tissue in the cat1. The pulmonary arterial vasa vasorum, arising from the coronary arteries, form an intramural capillary network in which it is suggested the blood may come into gaseous equilibrium with that in the lumen of the pulmonary artery itself. This network is said to drain into venae vasorum which supply the aortic bodies.
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COLERIDGE, H., COLERIDGE, J. & HOWE, A. Aorticopulmonary Glomus Tissue in the Cat. Nature 211, 1187 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111187a0
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