Electrical stimulation—Effects on the protein in the ventral nerve cord of cockroach,Periplaneta americana

1985 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
S L Maheswari ◽  
K Balasundaram ◽  
V R Selvarajan
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Nerve Cord ◽  
Ventral Nerve Cord ◽  
Periplaneta Americana

scholarly journals Physiological characterisation of antennal mechanosensory descending interneurons in an insect (Gryllus bimaculatus, Gryllus campestris) brain

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (13) ◽  
pp. 2265-2275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gebhardt ◽  
Hans-Willi Honegger
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Nerve Cord ◽  
Ventral Nerve Cord ◽  
Sensory Nerves ◽  
Gryllus Bimaculatus ◽  
Central Origin ◽  
Gryllus Campestris ◽  
Descending Interneurons ◽  
Stimulation Of

SUMMARY We investigated five different descending brain interneurons with dendritic arborizations in the deutocerebrum in the crickets Gryllus bimaculatus and G. campestris. These interneurones convey specific antennal mechanosensory information to the ventral nerve cord and all responded to forced antennal movements. These interneurones coded for velocity and showed preferences for distinct sectors of the total range of antennal movements. Their axons descended into the posterior connective either ipsilateral or contalateral to the cell body. Electrical stimulation of sensory nerves indicated that the interneurons received input from different afferents of the two antennal base segments. One interneuron had a particularly large axon with a conduction velocity of 4.4ms−1. This was the only one of the five interneurons that also received visual input. Its activity was reduced during voluntary antennal movements. The reduction in activity occurred even after de-efferentation of the antenna, indicating that it had a central origin. Although we do not have experimental evidence for behavioural roles for the descending antennal mechanosensory interneurons, the properties described here suggest an involvement in the perception of objects in the path of the cricket.

Visual and Multimodal Interneurones in the Ventral Nerve Cord of the Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana

1973 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-696
Author(s):  
R. J. COOTER
Keyword(s):  
Nerve Cord ◽  
Ventral Nerve Cord ◽  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Periplaneta Americana ◽  
Compound Eye ◽  
Visual Stimulation ◽  
Contralateral Stimulation ◽  
Thoracic Nerve ◽  
General Properties ◽  
Stimulation Of

1. Visual and multimodal units were recorded from the thoracic nerve cord of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, using glass microelectrodes. 2. Compound-eye units could be classified as ON-, OFF- or ON-OFF-units according to their response to visual stimulation. Some were multimodal, firing to both visual and tactile stimulation of the antennae. 3. Although some units were found to be either fired by ipsilateral or by contralateral stimulation only, others were fired by both types of stimulation, often in different ways. 4. Ocellar units were invariably OFF-units, mainly phasic, but one type showed tonic dark-firing in addition to the phasic OFF-burst. 5. The general properties of cockroach visual units are discussed and compared with those reported by other workers for different insects.

Release of Ach by slices of the ventral nerve cord of the cockroach Periplaneta americana

Toxicon ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
A.M.C. Pimenta ◽  
C.R. Diniz ◽  
M.E. De Lima
Keyword(s):  
Nerve Cord ◽  
Ventral Nerve Cord ◽  
Periplaneta Americana

Peripheral control of responsiveness to auditory stimuli in giant fibres of crickets and cockroaches

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
N. Orida ◽  
R. K. Josephson
Keyword(s):  
Nerve Cord ◽  
Ventral Nerve Cord ◽  
Periplaneta Americana ◽  
Acheta Domesticus ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Descending Inhibition ◽  
Descending Influences ◽  
Giant Fibres ◽  
Recording Electrodes

Auditory stimuli initiate ascending activity in large fibres of the ventral nerve cord of the cricket, Acheta domesticus, and the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. This auditory responsiveness is reduced during locomotion. An earlier study concluded that the depression of responsiveness was mediated by descending inhibition. However, the auditory responsiveness is reduced during locomotion even after section of the ventral nerve cord anterior to the abdominal recording electrodes. Further, auditory responsiveness of isolated abdomens attached to intact animals is inhibited during locomotion of their hosts. Laminar wind streams over the cerci depress responsiveness to sound, but only at velocities markedly higher than those encountered by freely walking animals. Although the exact mechanism is not known, the depressed auditory responsiveness can occur independently of any descending influences.

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