Ageing at a snails pace
Submitted by Carole Proctor on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 10:32
Summary
You may think that attempting to record electrophysiological data from the central nervous system (CNS) of an elderly snail would be a particularly uneventful task given that the snail is one of the slowest creatures to crawl the earth, and being elderly is even more lethargic than its younger relations. Yet the CNS of the common pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, proves to be a highly intriguing organ, and a useful model for the investigating the basic biology of neuronal ageing.