Distribution of monoamines in the diencephalon and pituitary of the dogfish,Scyliorhinus canicula L. |
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Authors: | J F Wilson J M Dodd |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Zoology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Caernarvonshire;(2) Department of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, Welsh National School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF4 4XW Wales, U.K. |
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Abstract: | Summary The distribution of monoamines in the diencephalon and pituitary of the dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula, has been investigated using the histochemical fluorescence technique of Falck and Hillarp (Falck and Owman, 1965). Terminals of monoamine-containing axons were found in the neurointermediate lobe of the pituitary and the axons were traced, by means of nialamide and L-dopa treatment and lesions, to the nucleus medius hypothalamicus. A separate hypothalamic system converging on the anterior median eminence and the occurrence of aminergic cells in the nuclei lobi inferiores and nucleus medius hypothalamicus were similarly demonstrated. Normal fish show a bilateral uncrossed tegmental tract and two areas of catecholamine-containing neurones in modified ependymal organs. The organum vasculosum hypothalami includes both primary catecholamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine-containing cell types whilst the organum vasculosum praeopticum has only the former type. Both organs contain cells which send club-like processes into the third ventricle. The subcommissural organ does not contain monoamines.The role of hypothalamic catecholamine systems in the regulation of pituitary function is discussed. |
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Keywords: | Hypothalamus Pituitary Elasmobranch Catecholamine fibres Fluorescence microscopy |
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