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  • Title: Dynamics of FMRFamide immunoreactivity in response to physiologically active substances in the central nervous system of the snail, Achatina fulica.
    Author: Takayanagi H, Takeda N.
    Journal: Comp Biochem Physiol A Comp Physiol; 1988; 91(3):609-12. PubMed ID: 2906840.
    Abstract:
    1. The changes in FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2) immunoreactivity in response to incubation in dopamine, serotonin, met-enkephalin, oxytocin, arg-vasopressin and FMRFamide were examined in the central nervous system of the snail, Achatina fulica. 2. When the central nervous system was cultured in medium which contained dopamine and in medium which contained serotonin, the number of immunoreactive neurons increased in the anterior part of the cerebral ganglion and decreased in the sub-esophageal ganglion. 3. When arg-vasopressin was added to the culture medium, the number of immunoreactive neurons increased in the pedal ganglion and decreased in the other sub-esophageal ganglion. 4. By contrast, when the central nervous system was cultured in medium which contained oxytocin, the number of immunoreactive neurons did not increase, but rather decreased, in each ganglion. 5. No changes in immunoreactivity were detected in the central nervous system when it was cultured in medium which contained FMRFamide. 6. It appears, from these results, that the production and release of FMRFamide from different neurons are differentially affected by the physiologically active substances tested.
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