Polish Society of Nephrology Polish Society of Nephrology Polish Society of Nephrology (PSN; Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Nefrologiczne) – non-profit medical-scientific association, established in 1983, with a current headquarters in Warsaw that unites nephrologists, physicians and other scholars, experts and professionals in the fields of kidney diseases, dialysis therapy and renal transplantation. Polish Society of Nephrology was established during the First Funding Congress, which was held in September 1983 in Bydgoszcz and registered in the District Court in Łódź. To that time there were two separate societies gathering doctors and other health care professionals specialized in kidney diseases - Nephrology Committee of the Polish Academy
Sensory organs of gastropods Sensory organs of gastropods The sensory organs of gastropods (snails and slugs) include olfactory organs, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no sense of hearing. In terrestrial gastropods the most important sensory organs are the olfactory organs which are located on the tips of the 4 tentacles. In opisthobranch marine gastropods, the chemosensory organs are two protruding structures on top of the head. These are known as rhinophores. An opisthobranch sea slug "Navanax inermis" has chemoreceptors on the sides of its mouth to track mucopolysaccharides in the slime trails of prey, and of potential mates. The freshwater snail "Bithynia tentaculata"