LYMNAEA-STAGNALIS
Larval trematode communities in Radix auricularia and Lymnaea stagnalis in a reservoir system of the Ruhr River
... Research on trematode life-cycles originated in Ger- many with the remarkable works of Nitzsch [5], La Val- ette [6] and Lühe [7] and has flourished in the last century yielding knowledge on more than 177 species whose ...
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Pore properties of Lymnaea stagnalis neuron stretch activated K+ channels
... homeostasis across cell membranes rather than to the modulation of excitability, it would be reasonable to expect conductances to vary according to the prevailing ionic strength of the physiological fluids. Instead, we ...
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Differences in LTM forming capability between geographically different strains of Alberta Lymnaea stagnalis are maintained whether they are trained in the lab or in the wild
... Differences in cognitive ability have been noted previously between strains of the same species of rodent (i.e. within-species variation) (Nguyen et al., 2006). In fact, differences in cognitive ability within the same ...
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NEURONAL FEEDBACK IN EGG LAYING BEHAVIOUR OF THE POND SNAIL LYMNAEA STAGNALIS
... Fig. 1 shows the normal egg-laying behaviour of a single Lymnaea stagnalis following clean water stimulation (CWS, Ter Maat et al. 1983). Rasping activity, locomotion and shell position were quantified by ...
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DIFFERENTIAL TRACER COUPLING BETWEEN PAIRS OF IDENTIFIED NEURONES OF THE MOLLUSC LYMNAEA STAGNALIS
... Our results with Lymnaea stagnalis are consistent with the finding of Murphy et al. (1983) in that neurones LB1 and RB1, which are weakly electrically coupled (Table 1), are not tracer-coupled (Fig. 2; ...
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Environmentally relevant stressors alter memory formation in the pond snail Lymnaea
... Lymnaea stagnalis collected from ponds in Alberta, the UK and continental Europe (Fig. 3) have given us insight into another not too often researched subject: different strains of the same species have ...
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Linking the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of ageing: evidence for somatotropic control of long term memory function in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis
... 2015). Lymnaea stagnalis appears to form no exception to this rule; several studies report that MIP genes are upregulated during LTM consolidation and that insulin/MIP signalling is necessary for LTM ...
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Determination of the exact copy numbers of particular mRNAs in a single cell by quantitative real time RT PCR
... snail Lymnaea stagnalis as this neuron plays a key role in the process of memory consolidation of a learned behavior brought about by associative learning of feeding ...
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The perception of stress alters adaptive behaviours in Lymnaea stagnalis
... the Lymnaea CNS by injecting serotonin precursors, blockers or toxins that alter the serotonin content in a predictable fashion ...that Lymnaea stagnalis not only detect predator kairomones but also ...
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Strain transformation: enhancement of invertebrate memory in a new rearing environment
... Memory formation is influenced by a variety of factors, including the environmental conditions in which an organism is reared. Here, we studied the memory-forming ability of the lab-bred B-strain of Lymnaea ...
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The shadow induced withdrawal response, dermal photoreceptors, and their input to the higher order interneuron RPeD11 in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis
... Lymnaea stagnalis is capable of both associative learning and the formation of long-term memory (LTM) (Benjamin et ...2008). Lymnaea stagnalis is also capable of visuo- vestibular conditioning ...
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Morphological changes and functional recovery following axotomy of a serotonergic cerebrobuccal neurone in the land snail Achatina fulica
... In addition to a detailed examination of the normal MCG, a second goal of this study was to examine the post-injury response of MCG neurites after a lesion to the ipsilateral CBC. Accordingly, we find that the MCG can ...
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Comparing memory forming capabilities between laboratory reared and wild Lymnaea: learning in the wild, a heritable component of snail memory
... of Lymnaea stagnalis to form LTM following operant conditioning both in the freely behaving animal and at the electrophysiological level in a neuron, RPeD1, which is a necessary site for ...
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Memory block: a consequence of conflict resolution
... snail Lymnaea stagnalis can be both classically and operantly conditioned and, following the acquisition of learning, forms memory (Ito et ...of Lymnaea to learn and remember for many days not to ...
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Adenosinergic modulation of neuronal activity in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis
... 10% on day 7 of normoxic recovery (Wijsman et al., 1985). Recent studies have utilized this ability of L. stagnalis to examine hypoxia- induced modulation of different protein profiles (Fei and Feng, 2008; Fei et ...
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β 1, 3 glucan modulates PKC signalling in Lymnaea stagnalis defence cells: a role for PKC in H2O2 production and downstream ERK activation
... L. stagnalis, we have recently shown that bacterial LPS modulates the phosphorylation (activation) of PKC (Walker and Plows, 2003) and ERK pathway members (Plows et ...L. stagnalis haemocytes and to ...
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Taste discrimination in conditioned taste aversion of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis
... Conditioning procedures for second-order conditioning We used the following training procedure to determine if Lymnaea were capable of undergoing second-order conditioning. The two appetitive CSs described above ...
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Associative learning and memory in Lymnaea stagnalis: how well do they remember?
... the Lymnaea central nervous system (CNS) was given almost as much space in Bullock and Horridge’s masterpiece Structure and Function in the Invertebrate Nervous System as was the Aplysia CNS (interestingly, the ...
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Predator detection in Lymnaea stagnalis
... of Lymnaea (Syed et ...in Lymnaea has demonstrated that this process is mediated by peripherally located dermal photoreceptors and is susceptible to the habituation phenomenon (Stoll, ...
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Operant conditioning of aerial respiratory behaviour in Lymnaea stagnalis
... L. stagnalis preparation as an experimental system may help to attain this ...L. stagnalis is the result of emergent properties of a three-cell network (Lukowiak, 1991; Barnes et ...
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