Heterogeneity in the accessory olfactory system |
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Authors: | Halpern M; Shapiro LS; Jia C |
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Institution: | Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn 11203, USA. mhalpern@netmail.hscbklyn.edu |
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Abstract: | The mammalian accessory olfactory bulb (AOB) is chemoarchitecturally
heterogeneous in that it stains differentially with a number of markers;
the receptor cells that project to the AOB are similarly heterogeneous.
What is the significance of this heterogeneity? We have found that the AOB
of the gray, short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica, stains
differentially with a number of 'markers': antibodies to olfactory marker
protein (OMP) and the alpha subunit of the G protein Gi2, the lectin of
Vicia villosa and NADPH-diaphorase. These markers stain the rostral AOB
more strongly than the caudal AOB whereas, the G protein subunit G(o) alpha
is located predominantly in the posterior subdivision of the AOB. This
heterogeneity in the chemoarchitecture of the AOB may reflect a fundamental
organizational dichotomy within the vomeronasal system that corresponds to
a functional dichotomy. The vomeronasal sensory epithelium also exhibits a
chemoarchitectural heterogeneity: receptor cells in the basal third are
G(o) alpha-immunoreactive whereas the cells in the middle third are Gi2
alpha-immunoreactive. Tracing studies using WGA-HRP demonstrate that the
neurons in the middle third of the vomeronasal sensory epithelium project
their axons to the anterior AOB whereas those in the basal third appear to
project to the posterior AOB.
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