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Substance P-, F8Famide-, and A18Famide-like immunoreactivity in the nervus terminalis and retina of the goldfish Carassius auratus

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We re-investigated the occurrence of substance P-like immunoreactivity in the retina of the goldfish Carassius auratus using antisera to substance P and other tachykinins. Most antisera labelled a previously described single class of mono-stratified amacrine cells arborizing in layer 3 of the inner plexiform layer. Preabsorption experiments showed that these amacrine cells contained at least one tachykinin-like peptide. One antiserum (INC 353) to substance P labelled not only these amacrine cells but also fibres in layer 1 of the inner plexiform layer and fibres in the optic nerve. These fibres were identified as retinopetal projections of the nervus terminalis, in part because of colocalized labelling with antisera against gonadotropin-releasing hormone and FMRFamide. Preabsorption experiments showed that the substance P-immunoreactive material in the nervus terminalis was not substance P or any other typical tachykinin. Labelling of the nervus terminalis with INC 353 was blocked by preabsorption with two bovine FMRFamide-like peptides, F8Famide and A18Famide, which contain a substance P(4–7)-like region. Antisera to F8Famide and A18Famide strongly labelled ganglia of the nervus terminalis and retinopetal fibres. We suggest that labelling of the nervus terminalis by antisera to substance P and FMRFamide occurs because of homologies between these antigens and a non-tachykinin, endogenous peptide that is similar to F8Famide and A18Famide.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, The University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive N. W., T2N 4N1, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Ann L. Kyle, Bao-guo Luo, T. H. Magnus & W. K. Stell

  2. Lions' Sight Centre, The University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive N. W., T2N 4N1, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Ann L. Kyle, Bao-guo Luo, T. H. Magnus & W. K. Stell

  3. Department of Anatomy, Shanghai Medical School, 138 Yi Xue Yuan Road, 200032, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

    Bao-guo Luo

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Kyle, A.L., Luo, Bg., Magnus, T.H. et al. Substance P-, F8Famide-, and A18Famide-like immunoreactivity in the nervus terminalis and retina of the goldfish Carassius auratus . Cell Tissue Res 280, 605–615 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00318363

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