Nitric oxide involvement in Hydra vulgaris very primitive olfactory- like system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 493-499

  Colasanti, Marco ^a   Venturini, Giorgio ^a   Merante, Angelo ^a   Musci, Giovanni ^b   Lauro, Giuliana M ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

chemosensorial system; cyclic GMP; feeding response; hydra; nitric oxide; NO synthase; primitive olfactory like model

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOADIPIC ACID; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITRITE; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031022922     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-01-00493.1997     Document Type: Article

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