Article
Formation and rearrangement of synapses in a growing insect.
Biological chemistry Hoppe-Seyler - 1 Nov 1994
Kämper G
Abstract excerpt
Sensory neurons in the cricket cuticle project with their axons in a spatially ordered manner into the central nervous system. There they possess synapses with particular interneurons, according to their receptor type, age and the location on the body surface. A sensory neuron is programmed at the time of differentiation by an unknown position specific factor to search with its axonal growth cone for the correct...
Topics
- Animals
- Axons
- Cell Differentiation
- Gryllidae
- Larva
- Mutation
- Neurons, Afferent
- Orthoptera
- Synapses