Lateral giant interneuron
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The lateral giant interneuron (LG) is an
abdominal nerve cord of crayfish, lobsters, shrimp of the order Decapoda and their relatives in the crustacean class Malacostraca. It is part of the system that controls a special kind of escape reflex of these organisms known as the "caridoid escape reaction."[1]
When the
reaction time
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The lateral giant connection to motor giant fast flexor neurons was the first known example of an electrical synapse (Furshpan & Potter 1957).
See also
References
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- Edwards, Donald H.; Heitler, William J.; Krasne, Franklin B. (April 1999). "Fifty years of a command neuron: the neurobiology of escape behavior in the crayfish". Trends in Neurosciences. 22 (4): 153โ160. S2CID 1197778– via Cell Press.
- Furshpan, EJ; Potter, DD (17 August 1957). "Mechanism of nerve-impulse transmission at a crayfish synapse". Nature. 180 (4581): 342โ343. S2CID 4216387.
- Wine, Jeffery J. (September 1984). "The structural basis of an innate behavioural pattern". Journal of Experimental Biology. 112 (1): 283โ319. – via Company of Biologists.
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