Geometric considerations of nitric oxide–cyclic GMP signalling in the glomerular neuropil of the locust antennal lobe

Using NADPH-diaphorase staining as a marker for nitric oxide (NO) synthase and an antiserum against cyclic GMP, we recently reported the anatomical distribution of nitric oxide donor and target cells in the antennal lobe, the principal olfactory neuropile of the locust. The most striking NADPH-diaph...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 1997-08, Vol.264 (1385), p.1177-1181
Main Authors: Bicker, Gerd, Schmachtenberg, Oliver, De Vente, Jan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antennal lobe
Antiserum
Brain
Interneurons
Locusts
Neurites
Neurons
Neuropil
Neuroscience
Oxides
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Summary:Using NADPH-diaphorase staining as a marker for nitric oxide (NO) synthase and an antiserum against cyclic GMP, we recently reported the anatomical distribution of nitric oxide donor and target cells in the antennal lobe, the principal olfactory neuropile of the locust. The most striking NADPH-diaphorase activity in the olfactory pathway is concentrated in a cluster of intensely stained local interneurons innervating the glomeruli. After incubation of tissue in a nitric oxide donor and inhibition of phospodiesterase activity, neurons of this cluster expressed cyclic GMP-immunoreactivity in the cell body and neurites. Here we examine the importance of the arrangement of NO donor and target cells for information processing in the glomeruli. The cellular organization of the NO-cyclic GMP system in olfactory interneurons, and the dendritic branching pattern, suggest that nitric oxide may not only act as intercellular, but also as intracellular messenger molecule in the glomerular neuropile of the antennal lobe.
ISSN:0962-8452
1471-2954
DOI:10.1098/rspb.1997.0162