title: Swim pacemaker response to bath applied neurotransmitters in the cubozoan Tripedalia cystophora.
abstract: The four rhopalia of cubomedusae are integrated parts of the central nervous system carrying their many eyes and thought to be the centres of visual information processing. Rhopalial pacemakers control locomotion through a complex neural signal transmitted to the ring nerve and the signal frequency is modulated by the visual input. Since electrical synapses have never been found in the cubozoan nervous system all signals are thought to be transmitted across chemical synapses, and so far information about the neurotransmitters involved are based on immunocytochemical or behavioural data. Here we present the first direct physiological evidence for the types of neurotransmitters involved in sensory information processing in the rhopalial nervous system. FMRFamide, serotonin and dopamine are shown to have inhibitory effect on the pacemaker frequency. There are some indications that the fast acting acetylcholine and glycine have an initial effect and then rapidly desensitise. Other tested neuroactive compounds (GABA, glutamate, and taurine) could not be shown to have a significant effect.
authors.affiliation: Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 4, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. jbielecki@bio.ku.dk
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bielecki
authors.forename: Gösta
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nachman
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garm
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000187:drug effects*; D037462:Cubozoa / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects; D013550:Swimming; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents
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