...Richard A. Gleeson; Michele G. Wheatly; Carl L. Reiber ABSTRACT As the blue crab Callinectes sapidus moves from sea water to fresh water, the ‘exposed’ chemosensory dendrites in the olfactory sensilla (aesthetascs) undergo changes in length that are positively correlated with environmental salinity...

... participation of postsynaptic dendritic and somatic elements of surviving local nerve cells. Synaptic regeneration can be demonstrated by morphological means both in developing and in adult central nervous system. The dendrites may show two types of response to deafferentation: (1) the formation of presynaptic...

...). The prepupal ecdysteroid peak triggers the degeneration of abdominal muscles, and the dendritic regression and death of identified moto-neurones. The present experiments examined the role of the commitment pulse in the larval-pupal reprogramming of these cells. The commitment pulse did not overtly affect...