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In crickets, a deutocerebral motoneuron sends axon collaterals to 6 of the 7 antennal muscles. Previous results indicated that this neuron exerts inhibition on these muscles and thus may be a common inhibitory motoneuron. In our present study, we show by doublelabelling, i.e. retrograde cobalt-filling and GABA-immunocytochemistry, that this neuron is GABA-immunoreactive, thus demonstrating that one common inhibitory motoneuron is part of the antennal motor system of crickets.
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Honegger, HW., Brunninger, B., Bräunig, P. et al. GABA-like immunoreactivity in a common inhibitory neuron of the antennal motor system of crickets. Cell Tissue Res 260, 349–354 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00318637
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