Adaptive Changes in the Vestibular System of Land Snail to a 30-Day Spaceflight and Readaptation on Return to Earth

Adaptive Changes in the Vestibular System of Land Snail to a 30-Day Spaceflight and Readaptation on Return to Earth

The vestibular system receives a permanent influence from gravity and reflexively controls equilibrium. If we assume gravity has remained constant during the species' evolution, will its sensory system adapt to abrupt loss of that force? We address this question in the land snail Helix lucorum...

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Main Authors: Nikolay Aseyev, Alia Kh. Vinarskaya, Matvey Roshchin, Tatiana A. Korshunova, Aleksey Yu. Malyshev, Alena B. Zuzina, Victor N. Ierusalimsky, Maria S. Lemak, Igor S. Zakharov, Ivan A. Novikov, Peter Kolosov, Ekaterina Chesnokova, Svetlana Volkova, Artem Kasianov, Leonid Uroshlev, Yekaterina Popova, Richard D. Boyle, Pavel M. Balaban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Subjects:
mollusks
gravity sensing
statocyst
neuroplasticity
vestibular system
gravitaxis
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncel.2017.00348/full

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