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Sensory input to growth stimulating neuroendocrine cells of Lymnaea stagnalis

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Several environmental factors influence the growth of the basommatophoran freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Growth is hormonally controlled by 4 cerebral clusters of ca 50–75 peptidergic, neuroendocrine Light Green Cells (LGC). The present light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopic study shows that the LGC are synaptically contacted by a tentacle sensory system (TSS). The TSS consists of 2 types of primary sensory neurone, viz. ca 150 S1-cells and ca 50–100 S2-cells. A S1-cell has a non-ciliated dendrite and an axon branch that synaptically contacts the soma of a S2-cell. A S2-cell has a branching, ciliated dendrite. Probably, S1- and S2-cells have different sensory modalities and can integrate sensory information by intersensory interaction. The S2-axons run through the tentacular nerves, the cerebral ganglia, and the intercerebral commissure. In each ganglion S2-axons branch and form synaptic contacts on the axons and somata of the LGC and on glial cells that surround the LGC. In an LGC-cluster, 1–3 LGC-somata are particularly strongly innervated. Probably, the TSS is involved in the environmental control of growth in L. stagnalis.

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    Eric W. Roubos & Rita M. van der Wal-Divendal

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The authors are greatly indebted to Prof. Dr. H.H. Boer for stimulating interest during the study and helpful comments during the preparation of the manuscript, and to Prof. Dr. J. Lever for critically reading the manuscript

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Roubos, E.W., van der Wal-Divendal, R.M. Sensory input to growth stimulating neuroendocrine cells of Lymnaea stagnalis . Cell Tissue Res. 227, 371–386 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00210892

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