Muscarinic regulation of Kenyon cell dendritic arborizations in adult worker honey bees.
The experience of foraging under natural conditions increases the volume of mushroom body neuropil in worker honey bees. A comparable increase in neuropil volume results from treatment of worker honey bees with pilocarpine, an agonist for muscarinic-type cholinergic receptors. A component of the neuropil growth induced by foraging experience is growth of dendrites in the collar region of the calyces. We show here, via analysis of Golgi-impregnated collar Kenyon cells with wedge arborizations, that significant increases in standard measures of dendritic complexity were also found in worker honey bees treated with pilocarpine. This result suggests that signaling via muscarinic-type receptors promotes the increase in Kenyon cell dendritic complexity associated with foraging. Treatment of worker honey bees with scopolamine, a muscarinic inhibitor, inhibited some aspects of dendritic growth. Spine density on the Kenyon cell dendrites varied with sampling location, with the distal portion of the dendritic field having greater total spine density than either the proximal or medial section. This observation may be functionally significant because of the stratified organization of projections from visual centers to the dendritic arborizations of the collar Kenyon cells. Pilocarpine treatment had no effect on the distribution of spines on dendrites of the collar Kenyon cells.
Neuroscience Program, Wake Forest University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. sdobrin@wfubmc.edu
Scott E
SE
Dobrin
J Daniel
JD
Herlihy
Gene E
GE
Robinson
Susan E
SE
Fahrbach
D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D018680:Cholinergic Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003712:Dendrites / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D049229:Dendritic Spines / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D018721:Muscarinic Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D024521:Mushroom Bodies / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D010862:Pilocarpine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic / Q000502:physiology; D012601:Scopolamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015398:Signal Transduction
D018680:Cholinergic Antagonists; D019476:Insect Proteins; D018721:Muscarinic Agonists; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic; D010862:Pilocarpine; D012601:Scopolamine
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