Collection: Nervous and muscle systems of rhabditophoran “turbellarians” (Plathelminthes, Rhabditophora)

Species: Monocelis fusca Örsted, 1843    Turbellaria

Description: Anterior body end of the turbellarian Monocelis fusca (Rhabditophora, Platyhelminthes) showing the serotonergic nervous system, the body-wall musculature and the muscular sheath of the brain. The series shows the brain, two pairs of longitudinal nerve cords (one lateral and one ventrolateral) that extend posteriorly from the brain, the anterior nerves (one pair of lateral nerves and one unpaired medial nerve) and the subepidermal nerve plexus.

Comments: none

Organs: сentral nervous system, nerve plexus, cerebral brain or its part, ganglion / ganglia, nerve, neuron(s), musculature innervation / musculature, peripheral nervous system

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

Publications: none

Microscope: Leica TCS SP5

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Serotonergic nervous system of the turbellarianMonocelis fusca (Rhabditophora, Platyhelminthes). Anterior end of the body.
Musculature of the turbellarian Monocelis fusca (Rhabditophora, Platyhelminthes). Anterior end of the body.
Serotonergic nervous system and the musculature of the turbellarian Monocelis fusca (Rhabditophora, Platyhelminthes). Anterior end of the body.