Multi-messenger innervation of the male sexual system of Lymnaea stagnalis

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 390, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 564-577

  De Lange, R P J ^a   Joosse, J ^a   Van Minnen, J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5HT; Copulation behaviour; FMRFamide; Myomodulin; NPY

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; TETRAPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; COPULATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; LYMNAEA; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; GENITALIA, MALE; LYMNAEA; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PENIS; PROSTATE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0031984184     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980126)390:4<564::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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