Figure 5
From: Anatomy and development of the larval nervous system in Echinococcus multilocularis
AcTub-IR in the protoscolex. A. AcTub-IR in the nerve terminals in the surface of the protoscolex (confocal microscopy, merge of 3 optical sections). B. AcTub-IR in the nerve cell bodies and neurites below the sections shown in A (confocal microscopy, merge of 3 optical sections). C. AcTub-IR cells and their projections in the internal sucker nerve ring (section). D. AcTub-IR cell bodies and their projections deep within the scolex (section). E. Detail showing a nerve terminal penetrating and traversing the tegument (arrow). Asterisks mark flame cells. (In panel BF, bright field microscopy is added to the merge of the fluorescence channels). Abbreviations: esr, external sucker ring; mnc, main nerve cords; rc, coronae of neurites projecting from the rostellar ring; rr, rostellar ring; stm, subtegumental muscle layer. Bars represent 25 μm in A, B, and D, 50 μm in C and 20 μm in E.