꿀벌부채명나방의 후기유충, 전용, 유충 직후용, 4일용, 성충2일전용, 성체에서 뇌를 적출하여 paraidehyde-fuchsin으로 분비활성 신경분비세포만을 염색하여 이 세포들의 분포, 수, 분비물질의 특성등이 변태시기에 따라 변화하는 것으로 추적하였다. 위의 6변태단계 뇌의 뇌간부, 전뇌측부, 시엽근역부, 중뇌, 후뇌에서 4형의 신경분비세포가 동정되었다. 뇌간부에 있는 medial neurosecretory cell은 6변태시기 뇌에서 3-7개이며, 제I형 신경분비세포는 1개를 가지고 있는 성충2일전용을 제외하고는 전반적으로 3개씩 관찰되었다. 전뇌측부에서 관찰되는 lateral neurosecretory cell은 용기와 성충기에서 1-5개가 관찰되었으며 제IV형 신경분비세포가 가장 많았다. 시엽근역부에 분포하는 Optic-lobe neurosecretory cell은 4일용에서만 1개가 관찰되었고 제I형 신경분비세포로 확인되었다. 중뇌에서 관찰되는 deuto cerebral neurosecretory cell은 성충에서만 1개가 관찰되었으며 이 세포는 제II형 신경분비세포이었다. 뇌에 있는 tritocerebral neurosecretory cell은 후기유충과 성충에서 3개와 1개가 각각 관찰되었으며 이 세포중 제I형 신경분비세포는 관찰되지 않았다.
The paraidehyde-fuchsin(PAE)-positive neurosecretory cells in the brains of wax moth Galleria mellonella have been morphologically examined at the six different metamorphic stages. During the metamorphosis, neurosecretory cells in the brain can be found in the five unclei of pars intercerebralis, lateral region of protocerebrum, optic lobe, deutocrebrum and tritocerebrum. The five nuelel include one to seven neurosecretory cells. On the bases of cell sizes and histochemical specificities of neurosercretion within cells, all the PAF-positive neurosercretory cells included in the six different metamorphic brains can be recognized as four species of neurosecretory cells as follows; (1) large (about 25 $mu$m), neurosecretion-parcked cell (type I neurosecretory cell), (2) large, granule-dispersed cell (type II neurosecretury cell), (3) small (about 15 $mu$m), neurosecretion-packed cell (type III neurosecretory cell), and (4) small, granule-dispersed cell (type IV neurose-cretory cell). The three tb seven medial neurosecretory cells are included in the pars intercerebralis of the six different metamorphic brains. With the increase of days from the late larva to the adult the type I cells of medial neurosecretory cells gradually decrease in number, but the respective three type II neurosecretory cells appear in the five different metamorphic brains except in pupa 2 day before the emeregnce of the adult which has only one type II. The one to five lateral neurosecretory cells are observed in the lateral region of protocerebrum from thepupa just after pupation to the adult. The type IV neurosecretory cells are the most in number of lateral neurosecretory cells. The one type Ineurosecretory cells are included near the optic lobe of only the 4-day-old pupa. the one deutocerebral neurosecretory cell, type II, appears only in the adult. The tritocerebrum includes both three neurosecretory cells in the late larva and one neuresecretory cell in the adult. In the late larva the two tritocerebral neurosecretory cells are type Ill neurosecretory cell and the one is type IV. The remaining one tritocerebral neurosecretory cell is type IV.
