Structural and functional aspects of the fast electrosensory pathway in the electrosensory lateral line lobe of the pulse fish Gymnotus carapo

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 401, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 549-563

  Castelló, María E ^a   Caputi, Angel ^a   Trujillo cenoz O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Electroreception; Electrosensory afferents; Mixed synapses; Spherical cells; Time feature extraction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRORECEPTOR; FISH; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032583098     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981130)401:4<549::AID-CNE7>3.3.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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