Reorganization of monoaminergic systems in the earthworm, Eisenia fetida, following brain extirpation.

The present study describes the major aspects of how monoaminergic (serotonin, dopamine) systems change in the course of regeneration of the brain in the earthworm (Eisenia fetida), investigated by immunocytochemistry, HPLC assay, and ligand binding. Following brain extirpation, the total regeneration time is about 80 days at 10 degrees C. On the 3rd postoperative day serotonin, and on the 11th postoperative day tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons can be observed in the wound tissue. Thereafter the number of the immunoreactive cells increases gradually, and by the 76th-80th postoperative days all serotonin- and tyrosine hydroxylase-immunopositive neurons can be found in their final positions, similarly to those observed in the intact brain. Labeled neurons located in the dorsal part of the regenerated brain appear earlier than the cells in lateral and ventral positions. Both serotonin- and tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons of the newly formed brain seem to originate from undifferentiated neuroblasts situated within and around the ventral ganglia and the pleura. Dopaminergic (tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive) elements may additionally derive from the proliferation of neurons localized in the subesophageal ganglion and the pharyngeal nerve plexus. Following brain extirpation, both serotonin and dopamine levels, assayed by HPLC, first increase in the subesophageal ganglion; by the 25th day of regeneration, the monoamine content decreases in it and increases in the brain. Hence it is suggested that monoamines are at least partly transported from this ganglion to the regenerating brain. At the same time, (3)H-LSD binding can be detected in the regenerating brain from the 3rd postoperative day, showing a continuous increase until the 80th postoperative day, suggesting a guiding role of postsynaptic elements in the monoaminergic reinnervation of the newly formed brain.

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