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  • Title: Neuropeptide schistosomin inhibits hormonally-induced ovulation in the freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis.
    Author: Hordijk PL, van Loenhout H, Ebberink RH, de Jong-Brink M, Joosse J.
    Journal: J Exp Zool; 1991 Aug; 259(2):268-71. PubMed ID: 1783894.
    Abstract:
    This study examines the interaction between the caudodorsal cell hormone (CDCH) and schistosomin, a peptide secreted by the central nervous system of the snail (Lymnaea stagnalis) infected with the avian schistosome Trichobilharzia ocellata. Non-infected snails were injected with synthetic as well as native CDCH in the absence or presence of purified schistosomin. The response to 2 pmol of synthetic CDCH was blocked for 90% by coinjection with 3.5 pmol of schistosomin. The ovulation-inducing activity of extracts of cerebral commissures (the storage area of native CDCH) was also blocked by schistosomin. The degree of inhibition (65%), however, was less than that observed with synthetic CDCH. These results show that schistosomin inhibits ovulation and egg laying in Lymnaea. This explains the decrease or absence of egg laying in schistosome-infected freshwater snails.
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