The ultrastructure and immunogold labelling of pancreatic polypeptide-immunoreactive cells associated with the egg-forming apparatus of a monogenean parasite, Diclidophora merlangi.

Abstract:

:An electron microscopical examination has been made of the fine structure and disposition of pancreatic polypeptide immunoreactive cells associated with the egg-forming apparatus in Diclidophora merlangi. The cell bodies are positioned in the parenchyma surrounding the ootype and taper to axon-like processes that extend to the ootype wall. The terminal regions of these processes branch and anastomose and, in places, the swollen endings or varicosities form synaptic appositions with the muscle fibres in the ootype wall. The cells are characterized by an extensive GER-Golgi system that is involved in the assembly and packaging of dense-cored vesicles. The vesicles accumulate in the axons and terminal varicosities, and their contents were found to be immunoreactive with antisera raised to the C-terminal hexapeptide amide of pancreatic polypeptide. It is concluded that the cells are neurosecretory in appearance and that, functionally, their secretions may serve to regulate ootype motility and thereby help co-ordinate egg production in the worm.

journal_name

Parasitology

journal_title

Parasitology

authors

Halton DW,Brennan GP,Maule AG,Shaw C,Johnston CF,Fairweather I

doi

10.1017/s0031182000064404

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-06-01 00:00:00

pages

429-36

eissn

0031-1820

issn

1469-8161

journal_volume

102 Pt 3

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