Abstract
We examined the expression of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the nervous system and epidermal body structures during embryonic and larval development of two grasshopper species: Locusta migratoria and Schistocerca americana. Histochemical labelling was blocked by the enzyme inhibitors eserine and BW284c51, but not by iso-OMPA, showing that the staining reflected true AChE activity. The majority of staining was localized on the cell surface but granular intracellular staining was also visible in many cell bodies. In both species, the cellular expression of AChE followed a similar but complex spatiotemporal staining pattern. Initially, mainly epidermal tissue structures were stained in the various body appendages (stages 25%-30%). Labelling subsequently appeared in outgrowing neurons of the central nervous system (CNS) and in the nerves innervating the limbs and dorsal body wall (stages 30%-40%). The latter staining originated in motoneurons of the ventral nerve cord. In a third phase (after 45%), the somata of certain identified mechanosensory neurons started to express AChE activity, presumably reflecting cholinergic differentiation. Staining was also found in repo-positive glial cells of the CNS, longitudinal glia of connectiv...Continue Reading
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