Book chapter
Activity-dependent Functional and Developmental Plasticity of Drosophila Neurons
Advances in Insect Physiology, pp.385-440
Elsevier Science & Technology
1998
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2806(08)60016-8
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the study of the in situ physiological and developmental effects of mutations at the neuronal and circuit levels that essentially underlie behavioral plasticity. It provides the recent developments about neural plasticity at the cellular level in Drosophila. The chapter essentially considers in vivo and in vitro preparations that provide insights into cellular processes of neural plasticity. Reflex circuits, plasticity in identified presynaptic arbors, and developmental and functional plasticity in neuronal cultures are presented in this chapter. As the neurogenetic study of neural plasticity unfolds, the results thus obtained indicate that the effects of mutations on neural plasticity are far from uniform at different locations in the nervous system. With complications of the timing of developmental events, such as critical periods of sensitivity to mutational perturbations and the different cell types involved in the assembly of the functioning nervous system, it becomes important to discern the specific components at the different levels of organization that are relevant to a particular form of neural plasticity, observed in neuronal networks and behavioural expression.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Activity-dependent Functional and Developmental Plasticity of Drosophila Neurons
- Creators
- Chun-Fang Wu - Biological Sciences Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USAJohn J Renger - Biological Sciences Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USAJeff E Engel - Biological Sciences Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Advances in Insect Physiology, pp.385-440
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0065-2806(08)60016-8
- eISSN
- 2213-6800
- ISSN
- 0065-2806
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1998
- Academic Unit
- Biology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070735602771
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