Olfactory marker protein expression in the vomeronasal neuroepithelium of tamarins (Saguinus spp)
| Autor: | John C. Dennis, Eva C. Garrett, Kunwar P. Bhatnagar, Christopher J. Bonar, Timothy D. Smith, Edward E. Morrison |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Aging Vomeronasal organ Tarsiidae Zoology Cell Count chemical and pharmacologic phenomena Olfaction complex mixtures Epithelium Atelinae Species Specificity Olfactory Marker Protein biology.animal Animals Primate Saimiri Molecular Biology Spider monkey New World monkey biology Lemur General Neuroscience Epithelial Cells bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification Immunohistochemistry biology.protein Aotidae bacteria Female Neurology (clinical) Vomeronasal Organ Saguinus Olfactory marker protein Developmental Biology Saguinus geoffroyi |
| Zdroj: | Brain Research. 1375:7-18 |
| ISSN: | 0006-8993 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.069 |
| Popis: | Knowledge of the vomeronasal neuroepithelium (VNNE) microanatomy is disproportionately based on rodents. To broaden our knowledge, we examined olfactory marker protein (OMP) expression in a sample of twenty-three non-human primates. The density of OMP (+) vomeronasal sensory neurons (VSNs) in the VNNE was measured. Here we compared OMP (+) VSN density in five species of Saguinus (a genus of New World monkey) of different ages to a comparative primate sample that included representatives of every superfamily in which a VNO is postnatally present. In Saguinus spp., the VNNE at birth is thin, usually comprising one or two nuclear rows. At all ages studied, few VNNE cells are OMP reactive as view in coronal sections. In the comparative sample, the OMP (+) VSNs appear to be far more numerous in the spider monkey (another New World monkey) and the bushbaby (a distant relative). Other species (e.g., owl monkey) had a similar low density of OMP (+) VSNs as in Saguinus. These results expand our earlier finding that few VSNs are OMP (+) in Saguinus geoffroyi to other species of the genus. Our sample indicates that the number of OMP (+) VSNs in primates varies from ubiquitous to few with New World monkeys varying the most. The scarcity of OMP (+) cells in some primate VNOs reflects a lower number of terminally differentiated VSNs compared to a diverse range of mammals. If primates with relatively few OMP (+) VSNs have a functional vomeronasal system, OMP is not critical for stimulus detection. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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