Electron microscopic localization and experimental modification of NADPH-diaphorase activity in crustacean sensory axons

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-173

  Johansson, Kjell U I ^a   Wallén, Rita ^a   Hallberg, Eric ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crustacean; Electron microscopy; Glomeruli; NADPH diaphorase; Olfaction; Olfactory lobe

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000810689     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02214172     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Bicker G. and Hähnlein, I. (1995) NADPH-diaphorase expression in neurones and glial cells of the locust brain. NeuroReport, 6, 325-328.
2. Bittner, G. D. (1973) Degeneration and regeneration in crustacean neuromuscular systems. Amer. Zool., 13, 379-408.
3. Bittner, G. D. (1991) Long-term survival of anucleate axons and its implications for nerve regeneration. Trends Neurosci., 14, 188-193.
4. Bredt, D. S. and Snyder, S, H. (1989) Nitric oxide mediates glutamate-linked enhancement of cGMP levels in the cerebellum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 86, 9030-9033.
5. Bredt, D. S., Glatt, D. S., Hwang, P. M., Fotuhi, M., Dawson, T. M. and Snyder, S. H. (1991) Nitric oxide synthase protein and mRNA are discretely localized in neuronal populations of the mammalian CNS together with NADPH diaphorase. Neuron, 7, 615-624.
6. Carlberg, M. (1994) Assay of neuronal nitric oxide synthase by HPLC determination of citrulline. J. Neurosci. Meth., 52, 165-167.
7. Cooke, I. R. C., Edwards, S. L. and Anderson, C. R. (1994) The distibution of NADPH diaphorase activity and immunoreactivity to nitric oxide synthase in the nervous system of the pulmonate snail Helix aspersa. Cell Tissue Res., 277, 565-572.
8. Elphick, M.R., Green, I. C. and O'Shea, M. (1993) Nitric oxide synthesis and action in an invertebrate brain. Brain Res., 619, 344-346.
9. Elphick, M. R., Rayne, R. C., Riveros-Moreno, V., Moncada, S. and O'Shea, M. (1995) Nitric oxide synthesis in locust interneurones. J. Exp. Biol., 198, 821-829.
10. Faber-Zuschratter, H. and Wolf, G. (1994) Ultrastructural distribution of NADPH-diaphorase cortical synapses. NeuroReport, 5, 2029-2032.
11. Hecker, M., Mülsch, A. and Busse, R. (1994) Subcellular localization and characterization of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. J. Neurochem., 62, 1524-1529.
12. Johansson, K. U. I. and Carlberg, M. (1994) NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry and nitric oxide synthase activity in deutocerebrum of the crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus (Crustacea, Decapoda). Brain Res., 649, 36-42.
13. Johansson, K. U. I. and Carlberg, M. (1995) NO-synthase: What can research on invertebrates add to what is already known? Adv. Neuroimmunol., 5, 431-442.
14. Kalina, M., Plapinger, R. E., Hoshino, Y. and Seligman, A. M. (1972) Non-osmiophilic tetrazolium salts that yield osmiophilic, lipophobic formazans for ultrastructural localization of dehydrogenase activity. J. Histochem. Cytochem., 20, 685-695.
15. Knowles, R. G., Palacios, M., Palmer, R. M. J. and Moncada, S. (1989) Formation of nitric oxide from L-arginine in the central nervous system: A transduction mechanism for stimulation of the soluble guanylate cyclase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 86, 5159-5162.
16. Lancaster, J. R. (1994) Simulation of the diffusion and reaction of endogenously produced nitric oxide. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 91, 8137-8141.
17. Martinez, A. (1995) Nitric oxide synthase in invertebrates. Histochem. J., 27, 770-776.
18. Mellon, DeF. and Munger, S. D. (1990) Nontophographic projection of olfactory sensory neurons in the crayfish brain. J. Comp. Neurol., 296, 253-262.
19. Mellon, DeF. and Alones, V. (1993) Cellular organization and growth-related plasticity of the crayfish olfactory midbrain. Microsc. Res. Tech., 24, 231-259.
20. Moncada, S., Palmer, R. M. J. and Higgs, E. A. (1991) Nitric oxide: physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology. Pharmacol. Rev., 43, 109-142.
21. Müller U. (1995) Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent nitric oxide synthase in Apis mellifera and Drosophila melanogaster. Eur. J. Neurosci., 6, 1362-1370.
22. Müller, U. and Buchner, E. (1993) Histochemical localization of NADPH diaphorase in the adult Drosophila brain: is nitric oxide a neuronal messenger also in insects? Naturwissenschaften, 80, 524-526.
23. Müller, U. and Hildebrandt, H. (1995) The nitric oxide cGMP system in the antennal lobe of Apis mellifera is implicated in integrative processing of chemosensory stimuli. Eur. J. Neurosri., 7, 2240-2248.
24. Sandeman, D. C. and Luff, J. L. (1973) Structural organization of glomerular neuropile in the olfactory and accessory lobes of an Australian freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor. Z. Zellforsch. Mikrosk., 142, 37-61.
25. Sandeman, D., Sandeman, R., Derby, C. and Schmidt, M. (1992) Morphology of the brain of crayfish, crabs, and spiny lobsters: a nomenclature for homologous structures. Biol. Bull., 183, 304-326.
26. Schmidt, M. and Ache, B. W. (1992) Antennular projections to the midbrain of the spiny lobster. II. Sensory innervation of the olfactory lobe. J. Comp. Neurol., 318, 291-303.
27. Snyder, S. H. (1992) Nitric oxide: first in a new class of neurotransmitters. Science, 257, 494-496.
28. Stengl, M. and Zintl, R. (1996) NADPH diaphorase activity in the antennae of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta. J. Exp. Biol., 199, 1063-1072.
29. Stocker, R. F. (1994) The organization of the chemosensory system in Drosophila melanogaster. Cell Tissue Res., 275, 3-26.
30. Thomas, E. and Pearse, A. G. E. (1961) The fine localization of dehydrogenases in the nervous system. Hitochemie, 2, 266-282.
31. Vincent, S. R. (1994) Nitric oxide: a radical neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Prog. Neurobiol., 42, 129-160.
32. Wolf, G., Würdig, S. and Schünzel, G. (1992) Nitric oxide synthase in rat brain is predominantly located at neuronal endoplasmatic reticulum: an electronmicroscopic demonstration of NADPH-diaphorase. Neurosci. Lett., 147, 63-66.
33. Wolf, G., Henschke, G. and Würdig, S. (1993) Glutamate agonist-induced hippocampal lesion and nitric oxide synthase/NADPH-diaphorase: a light and electron microscopical study in the rat. Neurosci. Lett., 161, 49-52.
34. Wood, J. and Garthwaite, J. (1994) Models of the diffusional spread of nitric oxide: implications for neuronal nitric oxide signalling and its pharmacological properties. Neuropharmacology, 33, 1235-1244.