Collection: Nervous system and sensory elements in insects

Species: Gromphadorhina portentosa (Schaum 1853)    Arthropoda

Description: The image shows several groups of neurons that send processes in the right cervical connective.

Comments: none

Organs: сentral nervous system, ganglion / ganglia, nerve, neuron(s), neural tract, connective

Methods: Retrograde and anterograde tracing techniques, extra- and intracellular labeling of neurons - retro-anterograde transport of nickel chloride method

Publications: Северина И. Ю., Исавнина И. Л., Князев А.Н. Топография восходящих и нисходящих нейронов надглоточного, мезо- и метаторакальных ганглиев у древне- и новокрылых насекомых // Ж. эвол. биохим. и физиол. 2016. Т. 52. № 5. С. 362-370.
Severina I.Yu., Isavnina I.L., Shchekanov E.E., Knyazev A.N.Topographic anatomy of neurons of supraesophageal, meso- and metathoracic ganglia in paleo- and neopterous insects // XI east european conference of the International Society for Invertebrate Neurobiology, ISIN, “Simpler nervous systems” 2016, P.54.

Microscope: Leica DMR with Canon EOS 100D

Stacks: 

Nervous elements on different optical layers of the ganglion