Longitudinal body wall muscles are electrically coupled across the segmental boundary in the third instar larva of Drosophila melanogaster

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 315-322

  Ueda, Atsushi ^a   Kidokoro, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3rd instar larvae; Drosophila melanogaster; Electrical coupling; Larval muscles; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; OCTANOL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MUSCLE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

1-OCTANOL; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HALOTHANE; LARVA; MUSCLES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030089964     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02211911     Document Type: Article

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