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Eyestalks of the palinuran species Jasus lalandii and Panulirus homarus, and the brachyuran species Carcinus maenas, were examined with antisera raised against purified crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone (cHH) of the astacidean species Homarus americanus and Procambarus bouvieri, as well as the brachyuran species Cancer pagurus. Other antisera used in this investigation were raised against purified moult-inhibiting hormone (MIH) of C. pagurus and vitellogenesis-inhibiting hormone (VIH) of H. americanus. Positive immunoreactions to all the antisera were localised in perikarya of the X-organ and the axon terminals in the sinus gland of all the crustaceans investigated. These results illustrate the existence of an immunological similarity, detectable at the immunocytochemical level, between the cHH/MIH/VIH neurohormones of the Astacidae, Palinura and Brachyura infraorders. Furthermore, results from consecutive tissue sections indicate that cHH, MIH and VIH are co-localised in a subpopulation of X-organ neurons.
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Received: 4 May 1998 / Accepted: 10 August 1998
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Marco, H., Gäde, G. A comparative immunocytochemical study of the hyperglycaemic, moult-inhibiting and vitellogenesis-inhibiting neurohormone family in three species of decapod Crustacea. Cell Tissue Res 295, 171–182 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004410051223
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004410051223