title: Nervous control of fish swimbladders.
abstract: The swimbladder of teleost fish receives a rich and complex innervation by nerve fibres of the autonomic nervous system. While an understanding of the form and function of a non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic innervation is slowly emerging, the pattern of control by the "classical" cholinergic and adrenergic innervation is becoming relatively well understood. This short review describes the autonomic innervation patterns, and attempts to summarise the role of cholinergic and adrenergic pathways in the control of gas secretion and resorption in the teleost swimbladder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoophysiology, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. s.nilsson@zool.gu.se
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nilsson
mesh_terms: D000400:Air Sacs / Q000098:blood supply / Q000294:innervation*; D000818:Animals; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D005740:Gases / Q000378:metabolism; D009092:Mucous Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D014661:Vasoconstriction
chemical_list: D005740:Gases