Collection: Nervous and muscle systems of lower bilateral animals (Xenacoelomorpha)

Species: Nemertoderma westbladi Steinböck, 1938    Nemertodermatida

Description: Confocal scanning laser microscope image of double-stained specimens. GYIRFamide pattern is shown in red; 5-HT pattern is shown in green. Ventral side, optical sections taken from the level of the ventral epidermis to the level of the bilithophorous statocyst, including the latter. Note the extensive development of GYIRFamide-IR fibres on the ventral side and the presence of large neurons associated with the ventral part of the ring.

Comments: none

Organs: сentral nervous system, nerve cord, nerve plexus, commissure, nerve, neuron(s)

Methods: Immunohistochemistry - serotonin,
Immunohistochemistry - FMRFamide

Publications: 

1. Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Gustafsson M.K.S, Maule A.G, Halton, D.W. and Jondelius U. 2004. Basiepidermal nervous system in Nemertoderma westbladi (Nemertodermatida): GYIRFamide immunoreactivity. Zoology, 107: 75-86.
2. Raikova O.I. 2004. Neuroanatomy of basal bilaterians (Xenoturbellida, Nemertodermatida, Acoela) and its phylogenetic implications. Åbo Akademi University Press, Åbo, Finland. P. 1-68.

Microscope: Leica TCS 4D

Stacks: 

Serotonin- and GYIRFamide-immunoreactive elements in the nervous system of Nemertoderma westbladi (Xenacoelomorpha, Nemertodermatida).