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The vascular and epithelial serotonergic innervation of the actinopterygian gill filament with special reference to the trout, Salmo gairdneri

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Antibodies against serotonin and 5-methoxytryptamine reveal indolaminergic neurons innervating the proximal part of the efferent arterial vasculature, the filament epithelia, the central venous sinus, and certain other serotonergic cells of the teleost gill filament. In the same area, acetylcholinesterase-positive and indoleaminergic neurons have already been described. We propose that these populations of neurons belong to a single neuronal type but express different agents. Our current results support this idea; in particular, they point to the presence of a single type of serotonin-containing nerve terminal, impinging on vascular smooth muscle. These results are in agreement with physiological data showing (i) the existence of non-cholinergic (atropine-resistant) vasoconstriction of the gill vasculature after nerve stimulation, and (ii) a potent vasoconstrictory action of infused serotonin. In addition, the above-mentioned serotonergic neurons have synaptic contacts with catecholaminergic nerve fibers, suggesting the existence of a modulatory relationship between the sympathetic and the cranial autonomic nerves supplying the teleost gill. Finally, these neurons show morphological relationships with a previously undescribed type of branchialserotonergic cell. The role of the parasympathetic nerve plexus of the teleost gill filament in the control of respiration and ionoregulation is discussed.

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    Present address: Département de Cytologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Institut des Neurosciences UA 1199, Paris, France

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  1. Laboratoire de Morphologie fonctionnelle, CNRS, Strasbourg, France

    Yannick Bailly,  Suzanne Dunel-Erb & Pierre Laurent

  2. Institut de Biochimie Cellulaire et de Neurochimie, CNRS, Bordeaux, France

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Bailly, Y., Dunel-Erb, S., Geffard, M. et al. The vascular and epithelial serotonergic innervation of the actinopterygian gill filament with special reference to the trout, Salmo gairdneri . Cell Tissue Res. 258, 349–363 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00239455

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