Collection: Nervous and muscle systems of free-living flatworms (Plathelminthes, "Turbellaria")

Species: Stenostomum leucops (Duges, 1828)    Turbellaria

Description: Confocal scanning laser images of phalloidin stained (in red) specimen with FMRFamide (green) immunoreactive labeling. FMRF-IR is visible in the brain neuropile (n) and in the sensory cells of the sensory pit (short arrow). Phalloidin stains thick longitudinal muscles and thin transverse muscles (long arrow) between the frontal lobes of the brain.

Comments: none

Organs: сentral nervous system, cerebral brain or its part, neuron(s), receptor cell(s), musculature innervation / musculature, Sensory organ

Methods: Immunohistochemistry - FMRFamide,
Histochemistry - F-actin in muscle fibers (Phalloidin)

Publications: Reuter M., Raikova O.I., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2001. Patterns in the nervous and muscle systems in lower flatworms. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 31 (supplement 1): 47-53.

Microscope: Leica TCS 4D

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Nervous system of Stenostomum leucops (Plathelminthes, Catenulida)