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  • Title: Ontogeny of regulatory neuropeptides in the bullfrog taste organ.
    Author: Kusakabe T, Matsuda H, Kawakami T, Syoui N, Kurihara K, Takenaka T, Sawada H.
    Journal: Brain Res Dev Brain Res; 1996 Oct 23; 96(1-2):285-9. PubMed ID: 8922691.
    Abstract:
    During metamorphic stages (stages XX-XXV), the first appearance of nerve fibers containing substance P (SP), calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), galanin (GAL), and neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the bullfrog taste organs was different for each substance. CGRP fibers appeared first in association with the immature taste organs at stage XX. Up to stage XXV, the taste organs, epithelial disks, are close to their adult form, and SP, VIP and GAL fibers appeared within them. Throughout these stages, NPY fibers were absent, and no taste cells had immunoreactivity of the five neuropeptides. The present findings and previous physiological studies suggest that the immature taste organs in metamorphic stages already function as chemical and mechanical receptors and that these sensory mechanisms are under the control of peptidergic innervation.
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