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Nervous system and neural maps in gastropodHelix lucorum L.

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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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  1. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

    V. N. Ierusalimsky, I. S. Zakharov, T. A. Palikhova & P. M. Balaban

  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow

    V. N. Ierusalimsky, I. S. Zakharov, T. A. Palikhova & P. M. Balaban

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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1075–1089, November–December, 1992.

Translated by P. M. Balaban.

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Ierusalimsky, V.N., Zakharov, I.S., Palikhova, T.A. et al. Nervous system and neural maps in gastropodHelix lucorum L.. Neurosci Behav Physiol 24, 13–22 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02355648

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