Collection: Nervous and muscular systems of parasitic flatworms (Plathelminthes)

Species: Diplostomum pseudospathaceum Niewiadomska, 1984    Trematoda

Description: General view of a 22-day-old metacercaria of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum (Platyhelminthes) showing the serotonergic nervous system and the musculature. The series shows the brain (cerebral ganglia), the anterior nerves and longitudinal nerve cords that extend from the brain, the commissures connecting the nerve cords and the nerves innervating the internal organs (sucker, lappets and the holdfast).

Comments: none

Organs: сentral nervous system, nerve cord, cerebral brain or its part, ganglion / ganglia, commissure, nerve, larval nervous system, musculature innervation / musculature, peripheral nervous system

Methods: Immunohistochemistry - FMRFamide,
Histochemistry - F-actin in muscle fibers (Phalloidin)

Publications: none

Microscope: Leica TCS SP5

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RF-amidergic nervous system of a 22-day-old metacercaria of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum.
Musculature of a 22-day-old metacercaria of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum.
RF-amidergic nervous system and the muscualture of a 22-day-old metacercaria of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum.