A New Attempt to Assess the Effect of Learning Processes on the Cholinergic System: Studies on Fruitflies and Honeybees

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 349-353

  Fresquet, Nadine ^a   Fournier, Didier ^b   Gauthier, Monique ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase activity rate; Apis mellifera; Drosophila melanogaster; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031923215     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(97)00360-X     Document Type: Article

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