COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF uNOS-POSITIVE STRUCTURES IN THE CNS OF SOME SPECIES OF CRUSTACEANS
V.M. Chertok,1,* E.P. Kotsyuba 2
1 Pacific State Medical University, Vladivostok, 690002, and
2 A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690033;
* e-mail: chertokv@mail.ru
We conducted a comparative study of NO-ergic system in the CNS of 10 species of crustaceans subclass
Malacostraca, belonging to orders Stomatopoda and Decapoda, with a common habitat in Ussuri Bay (Sea of
Japan). Both similar characteristics and differences in content and distribution of universal NO-synthase
(uNOS) were revealed in homologous parts of the brain and ventral nerve cord of the investigated species of
crustaceans. We discuss the involvement of nitric oxide in the regulation of physiological functions of decapod
crustaceans and its role in the processes of adaptation to the environmental conditions.
Key words:
nitric oxide, central nervous system, crustaceans, NO-synthase
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