Nervous system and neural maps in gastropod Helix lucorum L
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Homarus Americanus Stomatogastric Nervous System Dissection
Published on: May 28, 2009
V N Ierusalimsky1, I S Zakharov, T A Palikhova
1Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Abstract:
The present review summarizes the literature and provides new data concerning nervous system structure and the identification of individual neurons in the snail Helix lucorum. Information about especially well-known neurons is provided in a table, and maps of the identifiable neuron's location in ganglia are correlated with the results of retrograde staining via various cerebral and subesophageal nerves. References concerning the morphology of snail central nervous system and identifiable neurons are given.
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