The effect of visual deprivation on vestibular compensation in the guinea pig.
Total visual deprivation has no effect on the level of compensation of spontaneous nystagmus and lateral head deviation attained by 52 h after labyrinthectomy in the guinea pig. However, compensation of longitudinal twisting is significantly reduced. It is concluded that the role of vision in vestibular compensation may be specific to species and, in the guinea pig, to longitudinal twisting.
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006257:Head; D009068:Movement; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D009760:Nystagmus, Physiologic; D011187:Posture; D012683:Sensory Deprivation / Q000502:physiology*; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000502:physiology*