title: Possible target neurons of the reticulospinal cholecystokinin (CCK) projection to the lamprey spinal cord: immunohistochemistry combined with intracellular staining with lucifer yellow.
abstract: A subpopulation of reticulospinal neurons in the posterior rhombencephalic reticular nucleus in lamprey contains a cholecystokinin (CCK)-like peptide. Varicosities of these neurons, visualized by immunohistofluorescence, were found to be in close apposition to Lucifer yellow-filled spinal motoneurons and giant relay interneurons. Certain other types of interneurons and primary sensory neurons had no, or very few, close contacts with CCK-immunoreactive boutons.
authors.affiliation: Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brodin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grillner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hökfelt
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002766:Cholecystokinin / Q000502:physiology*; D005399:Fishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007546:Isoquinolines; D007798:Lampreys / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007546:Isoquinolines; D002766:Cholecystokinin; C017475:lucifer yellow