Ultrastructure of the water-movement-sensitive sensilla in the medicinal leech.
Ultrastructure of the water-movement-sensitive sensilla in the medicinal leech.
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药用水蛭中水运动敏感感器的超微结构。
DOI：
10.1002/neu.480130603
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发表时间：
1982
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通讯作者：
W. Friesen
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作者：
C. E. Phillips;W. Friesen
Behavioral and physiological experiments have shown that medicinal leeches are able to detect low amplitude surface waves, and further, that the transduction of this stimulus modality occurs primarily, if not exclusively, at the annular sensilla (Young, Dedwylder, and Friesen, 1981; Friesen, 1981). Here we examine the morphology of these specialized sensory structures using light, scanning electron, and transmission electron microscopes. We found that three types of ciliated sensory cells occur at the sensilla: (1) a uniciliate cell, with an axial cilium that projects at least 12 micrometers beyond the cuticle; (2) a multiciliate cell with from two to four grouped cilia that extend 1--3 micrometers beyond the cuticle; and (3) a second multiciliate cell, whose cilia project parallel to the body surface but remain within the cuticle. The cilia of all three cell types arise from the cuplike depressions which form the apices of slender, elongated cells (approximately 2 micrometers diameter X 50 micrometers length). A complexly interconnected ring of microvilli surrounds the cilium of the uniciliate cells. The morphology of the uniciliate cells closely resembles the structure of vibration-sensitive sensory neurons found in other species. We propose, based on previous results and our new findings, that the uniciliate receptor cells are the sensillar movement receptors which mediate leech sensitivity to water movements.
