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Picrothamnus was established by Nuttall, but reduced as A. spinescens Hall and Clements, and according to Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] is essentially Dracunculus with two autapomorphies: spiny habit and cobwebby-pilose cypselas.
Numbers of medium spiny neurons and ratios of these and less numerous striatal interneurons are critical variables that influence motor performance and aspects of cognition.
8A) and numerous spiny processes (full arrowhead).
In the case of Huntington disease the loss of 15-30% of the normal complement of medium spiny neurons leads to distinct movement disorder in both humans and transgenic mouse models [ 14 15 16 17 ] . The subset of genes that normally control the proliferation, differentiation, and survival of striatal neurons [ 18 19 20 ] are therefore of considerable importance in ensuring adaptive behavior at maturity.
But they would prefer to be trekking across the wildflower-pocked tundra, wading through 35-degree glacial muck, spending hours -looking, or exploring tidal pools for sunflower stars and brittle stars, spiny sea urchins, mussel worms, anemones, and blennies, as curious and brightly colored as any on a tropical coral reef.