title: Localization of crustacean hyperglycemic and vitellogenesis-inhibiting hormones in separate cell types in the protocerebrum of the woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare (Crustacea, Isopoda).
abstract: We gave an accurate immunolocalization of CHH (crustacean hyperglycemic hormone) and VIH (vitellogenesis-inhibiting hormone) in the brain and the sinus gland of the woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare. The two immune sera have been respectively raised against HPLC-purified CHH and against a small peptide derived from the N-terminus of VIH. By immunocytochemistry, we showed that CHH and VIH were synthesized in different perikarya and stored in different axon endings of the sinus gland. As in other crustacean species studied to date, CHH was located in the axon endings filled with the biggest granules. Immunoblotting confirmed that VIH was stored in the sinus glands of both the female and the male. These clear localizations of CHH- and VIH-antigens do not preclude that only one peptide is released from a given type of SG endings and do not rule out that each peptide can be involved in the control of different physiological processes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction et du Développement, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, 1060 Belvédère, Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azzouna
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Philippe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jarry
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grève
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D060829:Arthropod Proteins; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000379:methods; D007301:Insect Hormones / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D007447:Invertebrate Hormones; D033321:Isopoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D009490:Neurosecretory Systems / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D060829:Arthropod Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D007301:Insect Hormones; D007447:Invertebrate Hormones; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; C015947:hyperglycemic hormone, crustacean; C073189:vitellogenesis inhibiting hormone