This research reveals unique balance organs in birds, highlighting the presence of mechanosensory neurons and glial cells.
Birds have little blobs of tissue sticking out on either side of the spinal cord in the lumbosacral region (solid black arrow in the image above). These are the accessory lobes of Lachi, and they are made up of mechanosensory neurons and glycogen-rich glial cells (but they are not part of the glycogen body, that's […]
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