Specificity of identified central synapses in the embryonic cockroach: Appropriate connections form before the onset of spontaneous afferent activity

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 373, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 511-528

  Blagburn, Jonathan M ^a,b,c   Sosa, Maria A ^a   Blanco, Rosa E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

development; Dictyoptera; insects; interneuron; mechanosensory

Indexed keywords

COBALT CHLORIDE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENDRITES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPLANETA; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029793217     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960930)373:4<511::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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