Article
Selective histamine uptake rescues photo- and mechanoreceptor function of histidine decarboxylase-deficient Drosophila mutant.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Sept 1998
Melzig J, Burg M, Gruhn M, Pak W L, Buchner E
Abstract excerpt
In insects, histamine is found both in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and in the CNS and is known to function as a fast neurotransmitter in photoreceptors that have been shown to express selectively the hdc gene. This gene codes for histidine decarboxylase (HDC), the enzyme for histamine syn...
Topics
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Drosophila
- Evoked Potentials
- Ganglia, Invertebrate
- Histamine
- Histidine Decarboxylase
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mechanoreceptors
- Mutation
- Nervous System
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate
- Synaptic Transmission
- Vision, Ocular