Nitric oxide, but not serotonin, is involved in acquisition of food-attraction conditioning in the snail Helix pomatia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-32

  Teyke, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food finding; Learning; Mollusk; Nitric oxide; Olfactory orientation; Serotonin (5 HT)

Indexed keywords

5,6 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SMELLING; SNAIL;

EID: 0029939012     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12434-4     Document Type: Article

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