Giant input neurons of the mushroom body: Intracellular recording and staining in the cockroach

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-60

  Nishino, Hiroshi ^a   Mizunami, Makoto ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid; Associative memory; Brain; Cockroach; Insect; Intracellular recording; Mushroom body

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COCKROACH; INSECT; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPIL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; NEUROPIL; PERIPLANETA; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSATION;

EID: 0032540420     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00231-6     Document Type: Article

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