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Volume 34 #4

Contents

  1. Plasticity of inertial mass in the equilibrium organ within an altering gravitational field
  2. Behavioral and neurophysiological characteristics of oblique orientations estimation in males and females
  3. The role of slow sodium channels in GABA and NO-ergic modulation of the excitability of a nociceptive neuron
  4. Prolab: perceptually uniform projective colour coordinate system
  5. A convolutional neural network, robust to label noise for glioma segmentation
  6. Using window hough transform for detecting elongated boundaries in an image

Plasticity of inertial mass in the equilibrium organ within an altering gravitational field

© 2020 G. I. Gorgiladze

Institute of Biomedical Problems RAS 123007 Moscow, Khoroshevskoe higyway, 76a, Russia

Received 07 May 2020

The review makes a summary of experimental investigations of inertial mass in the equilibrium organ of invertebrates and vertebrates (coelenterates, mollusks, amphibians, fishes, birds, rats) exposed to weightlessness aboard robotic and piloted space vehicles and by clinostatting, and hypergravity by centrifugation. Inertial mass senses Earth’s gravity force and linear accelerations. It contains fairly large ear-stones or multiple and small statoconia. They are endogenous biominerals that form layered accretion around their nuclei. Inertial mass is characterized by high plasticity. It increases in weightlessness and during clinostatting and, on the contrary, decreases when exposed to centrifuge accelerations. From the above it can be concluded that the gravitational field is a critical factor in abiotic environments responsible for inertial mass formation in the animal organ of equilibrium.

Key words: statocyst, labyrinth, gravitoception, inertial mass, weightlessness, hypergravity

DOI: 10.31857/S0235009220040022

Cite: Gorgiladze G. I. Plastichnost inertsialnoi massy v organe ravnovesiya v izmenyayushchemsya gravitatsionnom pole [Plasticity of inertial mass in the equilibrium organ within an altering gravitational field]. Sensornye sistemy [Sensory systems]. 2020. V. 34(4). P. 267–282 (in Russian). doi: 10.31857/S0235009220040022

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