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Evidence that polycystins are involved in Hydra cnidocyte discharge
Invertebrate Neuroscience, 2017 Like other cnidarians, the freshwater organism Hydra is characterized by the possession of cnidocytes (stinging cells). Most cnidocytes are located on hydra tentacles, where they are organized along with sensory cells and ganglion cells into battery complexes.
Susan Mclaughlin
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Neural pathways and innervation of cnidocytes in tentacles of sea anemones
Hydrobiologia, 2004 Our previously published studies are here reviewed detailing neuro-cnidocyte synapses, demonstrating putative neurotransmitter substances, and identifying complex neural pathways in sea anemones. Synapses were traced to their contacts on nematocytes and spirocytes by transmission electron microscopy of serial thin sections of tentacles. In five animals,
J. A. Westfall
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Cnidocytes as Microscale Synthesis and Delivery Modules [PDF]
, 2008 Abstract : As a first step in using nematocysts isolated from Physalia in a drug-delivery patch, we needed to assess the techniques used to yield efficient discharge. A number of pre-discharge and discharge solutions were utilized to determine the best combination, chosen based on literature findings for nematocysts isolated from other species.
David Eddington, J. I. Bates
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ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE SMALL CNIDOCYTE OF THE PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR ( Physalia physalis ) TENTACLE
, 1988 D. Hessinger, Mark T. Ford
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Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 2021 Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man of war, consumes mostly fish and fish larvae. Intracellular recordings from nematocyst‐containing cells (cnidocytes) in small pieces of Physalia tentacle were used to quantify the electrical responses to diluted and filtered fish skin mucus, 1–100 x 10‐6 M amino acids, monosaccharides, and nucleosides, and seawater,
J. E. Purcell, P.A.V. Anderson
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The Biological Bulletin, 2014 This study investigated the localization of a voltage-gated calcium channel (VGCC) β subunit in the tentacles and cnidocytes of the Portuguese man-of-war using confocal immunocytochemistry. An antibody specific to the Ca(2+) channel β subunit of the Portuguese-man-of-war (PpCaVβ) was generated, and characterized by Western immunoblotting.
Christelle Bouchard, Peter Anderson
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Gonadal cnidocytes in the cubozoan Tripedalia cystophora Conant, 1897 (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)
Journal of Morphology, 2019 AbstractCubozoans have a complex lifecycle in many ways similar to the scyphozoan lifecycle. The sexual reproduction within cubozoans varies between species with one clade having copulation and internal fertilization and the release of planula larvae.
Sandra Helmark, Anders Garm
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Cnidocytes and adjacent supporting cells form receptor-effector complexes in anemone tentacles
Tissue and Cell, 1989 Cnidocytes, the stinging cells of enidarians, discharge enidae (intracellular capsules containing eversible tubules) in response to physical contact combined with the stimulation of specific chemoreceptors. These receptors, occurring in at least two classes, bind N-acetylated sugars and certain amino-compounds, respectively (Thorington and Hessinger ...
Glen M. Watson, David A. Hessinger
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Journal of Cell Science, 1991 ABSTRACT Cnidocyte-supporting cell complexes (CSCCs) discharge nematocysts into targets upon coincidental stimulation of specific chemoreceptors and contactsensitive mechanoreceptors. In addition, CSCCs in the tentacles of at least one species of sea anemone discharge nematocysts into targets vibrating at specific frequencies.
Glen M. Watson, David A. Hessinger
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