Receptor potentials and electrical properties of nonspiking stretch- receptive neurons in the sand crab Emerita analoga (Anomura, Hippidae)

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2493-2500

  Paul, Dorothy H ^a   Bruner, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CRAB; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REPOLARIZATION; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SPIKE WAVE; STRETCH RECEPTOR;

EID: 0032982452     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.5.2493     Document Type: Article

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