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The neuronal connections of the frontal ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana

A histological and iontophoretical study

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The frontal ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana was studied histologically and its neuronal pathways were mapped by use of axonal cobalt iontophoresis. Neurons and fiber tracts of the frontal ganglion are directly linked with different regions of the central nervous system (tritocerebrum, protocerebrum, subesophageal ganglion) and with the more caudal parts of the stomatogastric nervous system (hypocerebral ganglion, nervus oesophagei).

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Gundel, M., Penzlin, H. The neuronal connections of the frontal ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana . Cell Tissue Res. 193, 353–371 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209046

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