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Caliani I, Campani T, Conti B, Cosci F, Bedini S, D'Agostino A, Ammendola A, Di Noi A, Gori A, Casini S. Multi-biomarker approach and IBR index to evaluate the effects of different contaminants on the ecotoxicological status of Apis mellifera. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2021; 208:111486. [PMID: 33130481 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The honeybee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae), a keystone pollinator of wild plant species and agricultural crops, is disappearing globally due to parasites and diseases, habitat loss, genetic constraints, beekeeper management issues and to the widespread use of pesticides. Besides insecticides, widely studied in this species, honeybees are also exposed to herbicides and fungicides and heavy metals whose lethal and sublethal effects need to be investigated. In this context, our study aimed to evaluate the effects of fungicides and of heavy metals on honeybees and to develop and apply a multi-biomarker approach that include an Integrated Biological Index (IBRv2) to assess the toxicological status of this species. Biomarkers of neurotoxicity (AChE and CaE), metabolic alteration (ALP, and GST) and immune system (LYS, granulocytes) were measured, following honeybees' exposure to cadmium or to a crop fungicide, using the genotoxic compound EMS as positive control. A biomarker of genotoxicity (NA assay) was developed and applied for the first time in honeybees. At the doses tested, all the contaminants showed sublethal toxicity to the bees, highlighting in particular genotoxic effects. The data collected were analyzed by an IBRv2 index, which integrated the seven biomarkers used in this study. IBRv2 index increased with increasing cadmium or fungicide concentrations. The IBRv2 represents a simple tool for a general description of honeybees ecotoxicological health status. Results highlight the need for more in-depth investigations on the effects of fungicides on non-target organisms, such as honeybees, using sensitive methods for the determination of sublethal effects. This study contributes to the development of a multi-biomarker approach to be used for a more accurate ecotoxicological environmental monitoring of these animals.
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- Ilaria Caliani
- Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy.
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment Entomology, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto, 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment Entomology, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto, 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment Entomology, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto, 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, University of Naples "Parthenope", via Generale Parisi, 13, 80132 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Dulin F, Halm-Lemeille MP, Lozano S, Lepailleur A, Sopkova-de Oliveira Santos J, Rault S, Bureau R. Interpretation of honeybees contact toxicity associated to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2012; 79:13-21. [PMID: 22321412 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2012.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2011] [Revised: 01/06/2012] [Accepted: 01/08/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The widespread use of different pesticides generates adverse effects on non target organisms like honeybees. Organophosphorous and carbamates kill honeybees through the inactivation of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), thereby interfering with nerve signaling and function. For this class of pesticides, it is fundamental to understand the relationship between their structures and the contact toxicity for honeybees. A Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) study was carried out on 45 derivatives by a genetic algorithm approach starting from more than 2500 descriptors. In parallel, a new 3D model of AChE associated to honeybees was defined. Physicochemical properties of the receptor and docking studies of the derivatives allow understanding the meaningful of three descriptors and the implication of several amino acids in the overall toxicity of the pesticides.
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- Fabienne Dulin
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, UPRES EA-4258, INC3M FR CNRS 3038, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Boulevard Becquerel, 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, UPRES EA-4258, INC3M FR CNRS 3038, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Boulevard Becquerel, 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, UPRES EA-4258, INC3M FR CNRS 3038, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Boulevard Becquerel, 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, UPRES EA-4258, INC3M FR CNRS 3038, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Boulevard Becquerel, 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, UPRES EA-4258, INC3M FR CNRS 3038, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Boulevard Becquerel, 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, UPRES EA-4258, INC3M FR CNRS 3038, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Boulevard Becquerel, 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, UPRES EA-4258, INC3M FR CNRS 3038, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Boulevard Becquerel, 14032 Caen Cedex, France.
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Krüger S, Lakes-Harlan R. Changes in the auditory neuropil after deafferentation in adult grasshoppers (Schistocerca gregaria). ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT 2010; 39:26-32. [PMID: 19861171 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2009.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2008] [Revised: 10/17/2009] [Accepted: 10/19/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Nervous systems are capable of structural adjustments. Such plastic changes also occur in the auditory system of the locust Schistocerca gregaria in which a deafferentation leads to compensatory mechanisms, such as collateral sprouting of interneurons. In this study we further investigated lesion related changes in the major auditory neuropil, the median ventral association center (mVAC) of the metathoracic ganglion. The auditory sensory organ of adult locusts was unilaterally extirpated and the mVAC was histologically and immunocytochemically analyzed until 20 days postoperative. Measurements of the neuropil area in transverse sections showed a decrease in size. The putative transmitter of the afferents, acetylcholine, was investigated by acetylcholinesterase histochemistry. Comparisons of staining intensities in the intact and deafferentated mVAC indicated that the amount of acetylcholinesterase in the deafferentated mVAC decreased shortly after the operation. Both, the decreases in size of the mVAC as well as that in acetylcholinesterase histochemistry were only less than 10% compared to the controls. The immunoreactivity against the neurotransmitters gamma-amino butyric acid and serotonin was not influenced by the deafferentation.
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- Silke Krüger
- AG Integrative Sinnesphysiologie, Institut für Tierphysiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giebetaen, Wartweg 95, D-35392 Giebetaen, Germany
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Badiou A, Meled M, Belzunces LP. Honeybee Apis mellifera acetylcholinesterase--a biomarker to detect deltamethrin exposure. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2008; 69:246-53. [PMID: 17215041 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2006.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2006] [Revised: 11/08/2006] [Accepted: 11/20/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility to use acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as a biomarker of exposure to deltamethrin insecticide in the honeybee, Apis mellifera and to test its reliability in the presence of other contaminants, as carbamate insecticide. Joined actions of deltamethrin (pyrethroid) and pirimicarb (carbamate), alone or in association, are investigated on AChE activity in surviving and dead honeybees, with a special focus on the relative proportions of its membrane and soluble forms. At the 0.5X dose (12.5 ng of deltamethrin and/or 2.5 microg of pirimicarb per bee), the residual tissue AChE activity in dead bees was 78% with deltamethrin, 43% with pirimicarb and 33% with dual treatment. In surviving bees, tissue AChE activity represented 250%, and 270% of control AChE activity with deltamethrin and dual treatment, respectively. The analysis of membrane and soluble AChE forms revealed an increase in the soluble form in dead bees after deltamethrin and dual treatment. However, in vitro investigations showed no direct interaction of deltamethrin on soluble and membrane AChE activity. The results suggest that the action of deltamethrin on AChE activity, in honeybee intact organisms, could be due to indirect mechanisms. The duality of AChE response to deltamethrin exposure, exhibited by the possibility of increase (surviving bees) or decrease (dead bees) of its activity has been pointed out for the first time. The important increase in AChE activity in response to deltamethrin, not altered by pirimicarb treatment, suggests that AChE activity could represent a robust biomarker specific to deltamethrin exposure in living bees.
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- A Badiou
- INRA, UMR406 Ecologie des Invertébrés, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, 84000 Avignon, France.
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Douglass JK, Strausfeld NJ. Sign-conserving amacrine neurons in the fly's external plexiform layer. Vis Neurosci 2005; 22:345-58. [PMID: 16079009 DOI: 10.1017/s095252380522309x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2004] [Accepted: 02/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Amacrine cells in the external plexiform layer of the fly's lamina have been intracellulary recorded and dye-filled for the first time. The recordings demonstrate that like the lamina's short photoreceptors R1-R6, type 1 lamina amacrine neurons exhibit nonspiking, "sign-conserving" sustained depolarizations in response to illumination. This contrasts with the sign-inverting responses that typify first-order retinotopic relay neurons: monopolar cells L1-L5 and the T1 efferent neuron. The contrast frequency tuning of amacrine neurons is similar to that of photoreceptors and large lamina monopolar cells. Initial observations indicate that lamina amacrine receptive fields are also photoreceptor-like, suggesting either that their inputs originate from a small number of neighboring visual sampling units (VSUs), or that locally generated potentials decay rapidly with displacement. Lamina amacrines also respond to motion, and in one recording these responses were selective for the orientation of moving edges. This functional organization corresponds to the anatomy of amacrine cells, in which postsynaptic inputs from several neighboring photoreceptor endings are linked by a network of very thin distal processes. In this way, each VSU can receive convergent inputs from a surround of amacrine processes. This arrangement is well suited for relaying responses to local intensity fluctuations from neighboring VSUs to a central VSU where amacrines are known to be presynaptic to the dendrites of the T1 efferent. The T1 terminal converges at a deeper level with that of the L2 monopolar cell relaying from the same optic cartridge. Thus, the localized spatial responses and receptor-like temporal response properties of amacrines are consistent with possible roles in lateral inhibition, motion processing, or orientation processing.
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- John K Douglass
- Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, USA.
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Rind FC, Leitinger G. Immunocytochemical evidence that collision sensing neurons in the locust visual system contain acetylcholine. J Comp Neurol 2000; 423:389-401. [PMID: 10870080 DOI: 10.1002/1096-9861(20000731)423:3<389::aid-cne3>3.0.co;2-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The lobula giant movement detector (LGMD1 and -2) neurons in the locust visual system are parts of motion-sensitive pathways that detect objects approaching on a collision course. The dendritic processes of the LGMD1 and -2 in the lobula are localised to discrete regions, allowing the dendrites of each neuron to be distinguished uniquely. As was described previously for the LGMD1, the afferent processes onto the LGMD2 synapse directly with each other, and these synapses are immediately adjacent to their outputs onto the LGMD2. Here we present immunocytochemical evidence, using antibodies against choline-protein conjugates and a polyclonal antiserum against choline acetyltransferase (ChAT; Chemicon Ab 143), that the LGMD1 and -2 and the retinotopic units presynaptic to them contain acetylcholine (ACh). It is proposed that these retinotopic units excite the LGMD1 or -2 but inhibit each other. It is well established that ACh has both excitatory and inhibitory effects and may provide the substrate for a critical race in the LGMD1 or -2, between excitation caused by edges moving out over successive photoreceptors, and inhibition spreading laterally resulting in the selective response to objects approaching on a collision course. In the optic lobe, ACh was also found to be localised in discrete layers of the medulla and in the outer chiasm between the lamina and medulla. In the brain, the antennal lobes contained neurons that reacted positively for ACh. Silver- or haematoxylin and eosin-stained sections through the optic lobe confirmed the identities of the positively immunostained neurons.
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- F C Rind
- Neurobiology Department, School of Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
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Leitinger G, Simmons PJ. Cytochemical evidence that acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter of neurons that make excitatory and inhibitory outputs in the locust ocellar visual system. J Comp Neurol 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(20000117)416:3<345::aid-cne6>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Hornstein EP, Sambursky DL, Chamberlain SC. Histochemical localization of acetylcholinesterase in the lateral eye and brain of Limulus polyphemus: might acetylcholine be a neurotransmitter for lateral inhibition in the lateral eye? Vis Neurosci 1994; 11:989-1001. [PMID: 7947410 DOI: 10.1017/s0952523800003928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The distribution of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the lateral eye and brain of the horseshoe crab was investigated with histochemical means using standard controls to eliminate butyrylcholinesterase and nonspecific staining. Intense staining was observed in the neural plexus of the lateral compound eye, in the lateral optic nerve, and in various neuropils of the brain. Nerve fibers with moderate to weak staining were widespread in the brain. No somata were stained in either the lateral eye or the brain. The distribution of acetylcholinesterase in the supraesophageal ganglia and nerves of the giant barnacle was also investigated for comparison. Although both the median optic nerve of the barnacle and the lateral optic nerve of the horseshoe crab appear to contain the fibers of histaminergic neurons, only the lateral optic nerve of the horseshoe crab shows AChE staining. Other parts of the barnacle nervous system, however, showed intense AChE staining. These results along with the histochemical controls eliminate the possibility that some molecule found in histaminergic neurons accounted for the AChE staining but support the possibility that acetylcholine might be involved as a neurotransmitter in lateral inhibition in the horseshoe crab retina. Two reasonable neurotransmitter candidates for lateral inhibition, histamine and acetylcholine, must now be investigated.
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- E P Hornstein
- Department of Bioengineering and Neuroscience, Syracuse University, NY
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Belzunces LP, Gauthier M, Colin ME. Acetylcholinesterase in Apis mellifera head during post-embryonic development. Existence of a glycoinositol-anchored membrane form at eary pupal stages. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(92)90413-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Kreissl S, Bicker G. Histochemistry of acetylcholinesterase and immunocytochemistry of an acetylcholine receptor-like antigen in the brain of the honeybee. J Comp Neurol 1989; 286:71-84. [PMID: 2768558 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902860105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A histochemical staining method for acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and an antiserum raised against nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChR) of locust nervous tissue were applied in order to reveal certain candidates of cholinergic pathways in the brain of the honeybee. The AChE staining marked layers in the optic lobes, fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres, and fiber tracts as well as soma clusters within the protocerebrum. The calycal input regions of the mushroom bodies were labelled, whereas the intrinsic Kenyon cells showed no staining. Although the antennal afferents projecting into the dorsal lobe showed strong AChE activity, projections into the antennal lobe showed rather weak staining. Application of the antiserum against the AChR showed immunoreactivity in neuropiles, tracts, somata, and the antennal nerve. The immunoreactivity of the optic lobes coincided with the banding pattern of the AChE staining. A particularly striking overlap of AChR immunoreactivity and AChE staining was found in the lip neuropile of the mushroom bodies, which would suggest a cholinergic input into this neuropile via fibers of the median antennoglomerular tract. Because the antiserum against locust AChR binds in neuropiles displaying AChE activity, we conclude that this antiserum also cross-reacts with the bee's receptor. This interpretation is supported by experiments showing alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-BTX) binding sites in some areas of strong immunoreactivity.
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- S Kreissl
- Institut für Neurobiologie, der Freien Universität Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
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Toutant JP. Insect acetylcholinesterase: catalytic properties, tissue distribution and molecular forms. Prog Neurobiol 1989; 32:423-46. [PMID: 2660188 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(89)90031-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- J P Toutant
- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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Pirvola U, Tuomisto L, Yamatodani A, Panula P. Distribution of histamine in the cockroach brain and visual system: an immunocytochemical and biochemical study. J Comp Neurol 1988; 276:514-26. [PMID: 3198788 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902760406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The distribution of histamine-immunoreactivity in the carbodiimide-fixed brain and visual system of the cockroach was revealed immunocytochemically with an antiserum against histamine (HA). Histamine levels were measured with high-pressure liquid chromatography. The results show a widespread distribution of histamine-containing somata and fibers in the brain, particularly in the visual system. The most intense immunolabeling was seen in the retinal photoreceptors and in the first optic ganglion, the lamina, where the short visual fibers make synaptic connections with the monopolar neurons, which also displayed immunofluorescence. Immunoreactive long visual fibers traversed the lamina and outer chiasma, terminating in the distal medulla. Tracts of histamine-immunopositive fibers appeared to link the optic ganglia to the protocerebrum. Prominent histamine-containing neurons were situated in the lateral protocerebrum. Immunolabeled pathways consisting of large-diameter fibers also were seen in the cockroach brain. The central parts of the brain, including the central body, were reached by thick immunoreactive fibers that gave rise to intensely fluorescent varicose processes there. In the mushroom bodies, immunoreactivity was limited to the calyces. The protocerebral bridge was nonreactive. Immunofluorescence was seen also in the antennal lobes, but not in the antennal nerves. The biochemical measurements correlated well with the immunocytochemical data. The retinas and optic lobes, measured together, contained remarkably large amounts of histamine. These results reinforce the hypothesis presented by Hardie ('87) and Elias and Evans ('83) that histamine functions as a neurotransmitter in the photoreceptors of some, if not all, insect species.
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- U Pirvola
- Department of Anatomy, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Lutz EM, Tyrer NM. Immunohistochemical localization of serotonin and choline acetyltransferase in sensory neurones of the locust. J Comp Neurol 1988; 267:335-42. [PMID: 3278018 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902670304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Sensory neuronal cell bodies in the leg of locust, Schistocerca gregaria, were visualized with antibodies to locust choline acetyltransferase and with antibodies to serotonin by the avidin-biotin peroxidase technique. Two groups of sensory cells react with the antibody to choline acetyltransferase: One group is associated with external mechanoreceptors (i.e., hair-plate hairs and campaniform sensilla) and the other with internal proprioceptors (i.e., chordotonal organs and multiterminal receptors). Sensory cells which react with the antibody to serotonin are associated only with internal proprioceptors being found in both chordotonal organs and multiterminal receptors. In the metathoracic femoral chordotonal organ indirect evidence suggests that some sensory cells are reactive to both antibodies. Some multiterminal receptors react with anti-choline-acetyltransferase, while others react with antiserotonin. These results support the conclusion that most insect sensory neurones are cholinergic but some are serotoninergic.
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- E M Lutz
- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology, UMIST, Manchester, England
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Lutz EM, Tyrer NM. Immunohistochemical localization of choline acetyltransferase in the central nervous system of the locust. Brain Res 1987; 407:173-9. [PMID: 3555698 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(87)91234-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Immunohistochemistry of the locust central nervous system with antibody to choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) purified from the same species shows: first, there are relatively few immunoreactive cell bodies in the CNS; and second, sensory neuropiles, such as the ventral association centre and the ventral VAC (vVAC), the anterior ring tract, the tritocerebrum and the antennal lobe, are immunoreactive. That ChAT is contained in sensory neurones is suggested by immunoreactivity found in peripheral neurone cell bodies. These results indicate that acetylcholine serves primarily as a sensory transmitter in the locust.
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Immunocytochemistry of the locust central nervous system shows that most segmental nerves, in particular those of the legs, contain afferent fibres that react with antibody to 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT). Adsorption controls indicate that the antigen is 5-HT or a closely related compound. This is supported by the finding of significant amounts of 5-HT in leg nerves using reverse phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and electrochemical detection. On the other hand 5-HT was not detectable in locust antennal and cercal nerves with either immunocytochemistry or with HPLC. These results strongly support that some populations of sensory neurones in the locust contain 5-HT.
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Tyrer NM, Turner JD, Altman JS. Identifiable neurons in the locust central nervous system that react with antibodies to serotonin. J Comp Neurol 1984; 227:313-30. [PMID: 6480896 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902270303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A detailed account is given of a number of neurons in the locust central nervous system that react with antibody raised to serotonin-albumin complex. The antibody was applied to a series of frozen sections of locust ganglia and visualized by using the peroxidase immunohistochemical procedure. The neurons described include certain afferents and their related neuropiles, a small number of efferents and several systems of interneurons, some of which are segmentally repeated, some run from the brain through the whole nerve cord, while others are confined to the brain. It has been possible to identify many of the neurons from previous descriptions obtained from cobalt, Golgi, and osmium ethyl gallate methods.
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Raineri M, Falugi C. Acetylcholinesterase activity in embryonic and larval development ofArtemia salina leach (crustacea phyllopoda). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402270207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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