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The two groups of neurosecretory cells producing neuropeptides related to somatostatin (SRIF) and methionine-enkephalin (met-enkephalin), previously high-lighted in the brain of adult migratory locusts, were detected by immunofluorescent techniques during the embryonic development of these insects. The earliest detection of these neurosecretory products occurred firstly in the terminal arborizations, then in the fibres, and finally in the perikarya.
SRIF-like material is present in the corpora cardiaca already four days before hatching, i.e. at two-thirds of embryonic life, whereas immunoreactivity can be detected only after hatching in the perikarya located in the pars intercerebralis. The synthesis of met-enkephalin-like neuropeptide starts in the four cells of this system at least two days before hatching as shown by the immunofluorescence in the terminal arborizations along the tractus I to the corpora cardiaca.
SRIF-like and met-enkephalin-like neurosecretory products are synthesized and carried to their release areas whilst the formation of brain structures and of the corpora cardiaca has not yet been completed.
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Romeuf, M., Rémy, C. Early immunohistochemical detection of somatostatin-like and methionine-enkephablin-like neuropeptides in the brain of the migratory locust embryo. Cell Tissue Res. 236, 289–292 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00214229
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