Dye coupling and gap junctions between crustacean neurosecretory cells.
Neurosecretory cells in the X organ-sinus gland system of the crayfish were impaled and Lucifer Yellow was intracellularly iontophoresed. In some neurons the injected dye was transferred to neighboring neurons. The interneuronal dye transfer was between adjacent somata. Coupling was also observed between neurons and smaller cells, possibly glia. Gap junctions were identified by freeze-fracture in neuron somata and glial cells in the X organ and also in neurosecretory axons in the sinus gland.
D003400:Astacoidea / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005614:Freeze Fracturing; D006801:Humans; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009490:Neurosecretory Systems / Q000166:cytology*