Removing a single neuron in a vertebrate brain forever abolishes an essential behavior

The giant Mauthner (M) cell is the largest neuron known in the vertebrate brain. It has enabled major breakthroughs in neuroscience but its ultimate function remains surprisingly unclear: An actual survival value of M cell-mediated escapes has never been supported experimentally and ablating the cel...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2020-02, Vol.117 (6), p.3254-3260
Hauptverfasser:	Hecker, Alexander, Schulze, Wolfram, Oster, Jakob, Richter, David O., Schuster, Stefan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ablation Animals Axons Axons - physiology Biological Sciences Brain Cell survival Embryo, Nonmammalian - physiology Escape behavior Escape Reaction - physiology Larva - physiology Nervous system Nervous System - growth & development Neurons Neurons - cytology Neurons - physiology Survival Survival value Vertebrates Zebrafish
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