Steroid-regulated morphological plasticity in a set of identified peptidergic neurons in the moth Manduca sexta

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 2981-2992

  Mcgraw, Hillary F ^a   Prier, Kevin R S ^a   Wiley, Jesse C ^b   Tublitz, Nathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

20 hydroxyecdysone; Bursicon; Hormone; Insect; Insect cardioacceleratory peptide; Manduca sexta; Neuronal plasticity; Neuropeptide; Neurosecretion; Steroid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031796759     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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