Costorage and corelease of modulatory peptide cotransmitters with partially antagonistic actions on the accessory radula closer muscle of Aplysia californica

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 8092-8104

  Vilim, F S ^a   Price, D A ^b   Lesser, W ^b   Kupfermann, I ^a   Weiss, K R ^c  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplysia; cotransmission; dense core vesicles; EM immunocytochemistry; modulation; motor neuron; neuropeptides; peptide release

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MODULATION; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

EID: 0029845617     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-24-08092.1996     Document Type: Article

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