[Light microscopy of statocyst cell elements from Helix lucorum (space experiment aboard the orbital station "MIR")].

Statocyst epithelial lining of terrestrial pulmonary snail Helix lucorum is a spatially arranged structure consisting of 13 cell ensembles. Each ensemble has a sensory cell surrounded by companion cells. The sensory cell on the anterior statocyst pole is star-shaped due to multiple protoplasmatic protrusions on its body.

[Postnatal neurogenesis and regenerative capabilities of the central nervous system (review)].

Postnatal neurogenesis and regeneration opportunities of experimentally damaged areas of the cerebral cortex in various mammalian species were studied by the use of light and electron microscopy, autoradiography and transplantation. Back in the 70s of the 20th century by I. Mepisashvili and her school, it has been found that at the early stages of postnatal development of animals in the matrix area of the dorsolateral wall of the lateral ventricles there is a certain reserve of indifferent cells, which, like the embryonic period, by means of proliferation, migration and subsequent differentiation of their derivatives replenish the structure of the cortex with new glial and nerve cells and appear to be the major source of reparative regeneration of the CNS.

[Plasticity of stastocyst inertial mass in terraneous gastropods helix lucorum and pomatias rivulare in altering gravitational field (microgravity, hypergravity)].

Light and scanning electron microscopy was used to study the morphological parameters and ultrastructure of Helix lucorum statocysts and statoliths in Pomatias rivulare statocysts after 56, 93 and 110-day exposure to microgravity aboard the ISS. Increased gravity was simulated by 30-d centrifugation at 6 g. On the first day of recovery, many statoconia and statoliths were found to carry numerous warts.