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In the Southern Clawed Toad,Xenopus laevis, the compensation of vestibular induced behavioural deficits were investigated in relation to development.
In hemilabyrinthectomized tadpoles and juveniles, the time of compensation for movement and eye posture defects depends on the time of operation. As a rule, the older the animals are at the time of operation the longer the time of compensation. During the prometamorphic stages, movement defects are compensated faster than the asymmetrical eye posture.
In all developmental stages, sequential destruction of the labyrinths causes behavioural defects as if an intact animal was operated only on one side. Therefore, although in many old hemilabyrinthectomized tadpoles and juveniles no compensation can be observed these experiments prove the existence of compensation processes. In young tadpoles, the defects caused by the second operation persist for less than 10 d, while in older tadpoles these asymmetrical defects can last for many weeks, depending on the time interval between both operations. As a rule, the loss of compensation is quicker in the dynamic vestibulo-spinal than in the static vestibulo-ocular pathway. Nevertheless, after a long time all sequentially operated animals behave like simultaneously operated ones, which never compensate the loss of labyrinthine inputs.
The results indicate on different time courses in the development of the two vestibular pathways which may also be caused by a non-synchronously internal functional development of the cerebellum and/or other brain nuclei connected with the vestibular pathways.
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Rayer, B., Cagol, E. & Horn, E. Compensation of vestibular-induced deficits in relation to the development of the Southern Clawed Toad,Xenopus laevis daudin. J. Comp. Physiol. 151, 487–498 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00605466
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