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Immunocytochemical demonstration of S-antigen (arrestin) in the brain of the blowfly Calliphora vicina

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S-Antigen (arrestin)-immunoreaction can be considered as a marker for retinal and extraretinal photoreceptors in both vertebrate and invertebrate species. The present immunocytochemical study with the blowfly Calliphora vicina revealed S-antigen immunoreaction in retinal photoreceptors and various groups of neurons bilaterally distributed in the optic lobes and in the proto-, deuto- and tritocerebrum. S-Antigen-immunoreactive processes and terminal formations were found in the lower division of the central body complex and in the neuropil of the mushroom body. Also neuropil regions of the optic lobe, the lamina, medulla and lobula displayed S-antigen-immunoreactive fibers which were arranged in different patterns. These immunocytochemical data suggest that extraocular photoreceptors may be located in various parts of the blowfly brain. They provide a structural basis for further experiments which are needed to identify definitely these elements as extraretinal photoreceptors.

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  1. Department of Invertebrate Physiology, Warsaw University, Zwirki i Wigury, 93 02-089, Warszawa, Poland

    B. Cymborowski

  2. Center of Morphology, Section on Neurobiology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, D-60590, Frankfurt, Germany

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Cymborowski, B., Korf, H.W. Immunocytochemical demonstration of S-antigen (arrestin) in the brain of the blowfly Calliphora vicina . Cell Tissue Res 279, 109–114 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300697

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