Abnormal mushroom body plasticity in the Drosophila memory mutant amnesiac.

doi:10.1097/00001756-199808240-00006

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Abnormal mushroom body plasticity in the Drosophila memory mutant amnesiac.

Neuroreport - 24 Aug 1998

Hitier R, Heisenberg M, Préat T

Abstract excerpt

In Drosophila melanogaster, adult or larval rearing conditions influence brain structure. In particular, larval density affects the number of fibers forming the mushroom bodies, a neuropil structure involved in olfactory learning. The mushroom bodies receive chemosensory inputs from the antennal...

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Amnesia
Animals
Brain
Drosophila
Larva
Memory
Mutation
Neuronal Plasticity

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