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Preparation of Aplysia Sensory-motor Neuronal Cell Cultures
Published on: June 8, 2009
Secretion of axonally transported neural peptides from the nervous system of Aplysia
Abstract:
The possibility that proteins reaching the abdominal ganglion of Aplysia by axonal transport from the circumesophageal ganglia might be subject to secretion in that structure was examined. Transported labeled protein was found to be released from the abdominal ganglion; such release was enhanced by exposure to a high K+ medium and by electrical stimulation of the transporting axons. Stimulation of release was inhibited by lowering the Ca2+/Mg2+ ratio of the medium. The released material is predominantly of 1--2000 daltons in molecular weight and appears to have been derived from a group of transported peptides of about the same size. The possibility is raised that these data may reflect the existence of a peptidergic second-order neurosecretory pathway in this nervous system.
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