Asymmetries in sensory pathways from skin to motoneurons on each side of the body determine the direction of an avoidance response in hatchling Xenopus tadpoles

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 506, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 471-487

  Zhao, Fei Yue ^a   Burton, Brian G ^a   Wolf, Ervin ^a,b   Roberts, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SKIN STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; TADPOLE; XENOPUS; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HATCHLING; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; PERFUSION; POPULATION MODEL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LARVA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; SKIN; STRYCHNINE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032518938     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.471bw.x     Document Type: Article

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