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Histochemistry

Title:		Synaptic relationships between GABA-immunoreactive neurons and an identified uniglomerular projection neuron in the antennal lobe of Periplaneta americana: a double-labeling electron microscopic study
Author(s):		Malun D;
Address:		"Institut fur Zoologie, Universitat Regensburg, Federal Republic of Germany"
Journal Title:		Histochemistry
Year:		1991
Volume:		96
Issue:		3
Page Number:		197 - 207
DOI:		10.1007/BF00271538
ISSN/ISBN:		0301-5564 (Print) 0301-5564 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Two types of central neurons in the antennal lobe of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana were labeled with a combination of two specific markers. Their synaptic contacts were characterized and their distribution on the neurons examined. A uniglomerular pheromone-sensitive projection neuron with dendritic arbor in the male-specific macroglomerulus (attractant neuron) was characterized physiologically by intracellular recording and then filled with biocytin, which was converted to a marker for this individual neuron by a preembedding procedure. In a postembedding procedure local, multiglomerular interneurons were marked by immunogold labeling of GABA. Two kinds of synaptic contacts were found on the attractant neuron. (i) Input synapses from GABA-immunoreactive profiles. There were many of these, which (together with results of previous studies) suggests that local interneurons mediate polysynaptic transmission from antennal receptor fibers to the projection neuron. (ii) Output synapses onto GABA-immunoreactive profiles and onto non-identified neurons. These contacts indicate that signals generated by the projection neurons in a given glomerulus are passed back to multiglomerular interneurons and hence are also transmitted to other glomeruli"
Keywords:		"Animals Brain/cytology/physiology Electrophysiology Interneurons/physiology/ultrastructure Lysine/analogs & derivatives Male Microscopy, Immunoelectron Neurons/physiology/ultrastructure Periplaneta/cytology/*physiology Synapses/ultrastructure gamma-Aminob;"
Notes:		"MedlineMalun, D eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Germany 1991/01/01 Histochemistry. 1991; 96(3):197-207. doi: 10.1007/BF00271538"