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Stress alters adaptive behaviors including vigilance behaviors. In Lymnaea one of these vigilance behavior is a heightened withdrawal response to a shadow. The shadow withdrawal response (SWR) is mediated by dermal photoreceptors located primarily on the foot, mantle cavity, and skin around the pneumostome area. Here we asked whether we could obtain a neural correlate of the heightened SWR and other essential behaviors following traumatic stress. We measured the electrophysiological properties of ‘Right Pedal Dorsal 11 (RPeD11)’, the interneuron that plays a major role in mediating the whole-body withdrawal response. In traumatized snails 24 hours after the trauma they responded not only to a shadow stimulus with an augmented withdrawal response, but suppressed in locomotive, feeding and respiratory behavior. Their behavioral change lasted at least one week. Accompanying the behavioral change in these ‘traumatized’ preparations there are a number of significant changes in the neuronal properties of RPeD11 compared to naïve preparations. For example, RPeD11 is significantly more depolarized (~10 mV) has significantly larger input resistance, and the duration of the response elicited by the shadow persists longer. All these changes result in an increased RPeD11 response and seem to raise their defensive alert level.
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Presented during the 12th ISIN Symposium on Invertebrate Neurobiology, August 31–September 4, 2011, Tihany, Hungary.
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Sunada, H., Lukowiak, K. & Sakakibara, M. Repetitive Noxious Stimulus Altered the Shadow-Induced Withdrawal Behavior in Lymnaea. BIOLOGIA FUTURA 63 (Suppl 2), 179–189 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1556/ABiol.63.2012.Suppl.2.23
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