Localization Of Nitric-oxide Synthase In The Mouse Olfactory And Vomeronasal System - A Histochemical, Immunological And In-situ Hybridization Study

Title

Localization Of Nitric-oxide Synthase In The Mouse Olfactory And Vomeronasal System - A Histochemical, Immunological And In-situ Hybridization Study

Creator

Kishimoto J; Keverne E B; Hardwick J; Emson P C

Publisher

European Journal of Neuroscience

Date

1993
1993-12

Description

The distribution of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in the mouse olfactory bulb and olfactory epithelium, including the vomeronasal organ, was studied using an anti-NOS antibody, NADPH diaphorase histochemistry and in situ hybridization with NOS specific antisense oligonucleotide probes. Interneurons containing NOS protein and mRNA, and exhibiting NADPH diaphorase activity were detected in the plexiform layer of the main olfactory bulb and the granule cell layer of main and accessory olfactory bulbs. Periglomerular cells and granule cells in the main olfactory bulb were also NOS positive with diaphorase and immunostaining for NOS. In contrast, no evidence for NOS expression was found either in the main olfactory epithelium or in the vomeronasal organ, in spite of the strong diaphorase staining of the surface of the main olfactory epithelium. Polymerase chain reaction amplification experiments for detection of NOS gene expression further indicated that NOS is expressed in the olfactory bulb but not in either the main olfactory epithelium or vomeronasal organ. Use of an antibody raised against another enzyme, NADPH-P450 oxidoreductase, showed that this protein was strongly expressed in the olfactory epithelium, Activity of this enzyme may account for the diaphorase histochemical staining of the epithelia. An involvement of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in signalling in olfactory receptor neurons is therefore doubtful, although NOS is clearly expressed in neurons in both main and accessory olfactory bulbs.

Subject

accessory olfactory bulb; brain; messenger-rna; nadph-diaphorase activity; napdh diaphorase; napdh-p450 oxidoreductase; Neurosciences & Neurology; olfactory bulb; protein; reductase

Format

Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication

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Pages

1684-1694

Issue

12

Volume

5

Citation

Kishimoto J; Keverne E B; Hardwick J; Emson P C, “Localization Of Nitric-oxide Synthase In The Mouse Olfactory And Vomeronasal System - A Histochemical, Immunological And In-situ Hybridization Study,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed March 29, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/10492.