Enhancement of an inhibitory input to the feeding central pattern generator in Lymnaea stagnalis during conditioned taste-aversion learning

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 179-182

  Kojima, Satoshi ^a   Nanakamura, Hiroshi ^a   Nagayama, Shin ^a   Fujito, Yutaka ^b   Ito, Etsuro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Conditioned taste aversion; Feeding; Inhibitory postsynaptic potential; Lymnaea; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GIANT CELL; LEARNING; MOTONEURON; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SNAIL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASTE AVERSION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LYMNAEA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; TASTE;

EID: 0030873029     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00507-7     Document Type: Article

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