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Octopamine-immunoreactive neurons in the central nervous system of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus

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The distribution of octopamine-immunoreactive neurons is described using whole-mount preparations of all central ganglia of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus. Up to 160 octopamine-immunoreactive somata were mapped per animal. Medial unpaired octopamine-immunoreactive neurons occur in all but the cerebral ganglia and show segment-specific differences in number. The position and form of these cells are in accordance with well-known, segmentally-organized clusters of large dorsal and ventral unpaired medial neurons demonstrated by other techniques. In addition, bilaterally arranged groups of immunoreactive somata have been labelled in the cerebral, suboesophageal and terminal ganglia. A detailed histological description of octopamine-immunoreactive elements in the prothoracic ganglion is given. Octopamine-immunoreactive somata and axons correspond to the different dorsal unpaired medial cell types identified by intracellular single-cell staining. In the prothoracic ganglion, all efferent neurons whose primary neurites are found in the fibre bundle of dorsal unpaired cells are immunoreactive. Intersegmental octopamine-immunoreactive neurons are also present. Collaterals originating from dorsal intersegmental fibres terminate in different neuropils and fibre tracts. Fine varicose fibres have been located in several fibre tracts, motor and sensory neuropils. Peripheral varicose octopamine-immunoreactive fibres found on several nerves are discussed in terms of possible neurohemal releasing sites for octopamine.

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    Ulrike Spörhase-Eichmann, Michael Hörner & Friedrich-Wilhelm Schürmann

  2. Department of Experimental Zoology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Henk G. B. Vullings

  3. Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ruud M. Buijs

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Spörhase-Eichmann, U., Vullings, H.G.B., Buijs, R.M. et al. Octopamine-immunoreactive neurons in the central nervous system of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus . Cell Tissue Res 268, 287–304 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00318798

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