title: A hormonal component in central vestibular compensation.
abstract: In developing clawed toads Xenopus laevis, the compensation mechanism of behavioural defects caused by unilateral labyrinthectomy consists of two components, a vestibular one and a hormonal one. Thyroxine accelerates this compensation.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007758:Ear, Inner / Q000502:physiology; D007016:Hypophysectomy; D009068:Movement; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000502:physiology*; D014981:Xenopus
chemical_list: D013974:Thyroxine