Some effects of proctolin on the cardiac ganglion of the Maine Lobster, Homarus americanus (Milne Edwards).

The neuropeptide proctolin has excitatory effects on the isolated lobster cardiac ganglion. Selective application to the anterior cell body region produces a dose-dependent (10(-8)--10(-5) M) prolonged depolarization of large anterior cells as well as marked increases in burst frequency and/or duration. In ganglia which have been silenced with tetrodotoxin, proctolin application to anterior cells elicits long-lasting depolarizing responses which are accompanied by a 10-30% increase of the apparent membrane input resistance. Higher proctolin concentrations produce high-frequency trains of driver potentials. It is proposed that a proctolin like peptide may serve a neurohumoral role in the lobster cardiac ganglion and that the anterior motor neurons exhibit endogenous rhythmicity in its presence.

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